What’s Next: Present

The inevidable question everyone asks once they get home.

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So here I am…at home.
There is this huge life-altering question every racer asks “What’s next?”.

But, Oh how stressful that can be!

I desire to do what the Lord wants but he wants me to choose. Just one thing out of millions. What if I pick the wrong one? Is there some sort of category that I am suppose to pick from? What if I pick and it doesn’t work out? I spent hours and hours on the computer searching for churches and organizations to potentially work for. I exhausted my options day and night looking for just the right thing. It drove me crazy, so much so that I even considered becoming a missionary again….but soon realized I was stretching it a bit.

Then someone challenged me with a question, “A majority of people have full-time jobs and still serve in the church so why should you be someone paid for serving the church?” She told me that people who do work in the church are specifically called into ministry. So was I called to ministry full-time or called to a vocation in the world? You see, I figured I was called into ministry.

But I was brought back to questioning what I wanted to do.

I have always been convicted of the verse Jesus prayed in John 17: 15,
“I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.”

We are called to be in this world but not of this world.

I have always had an easier time keeping my convictions in a world with so many temptations. I could be a light and stick to my beliefs while being an example to others in love. So maybe I was called to be in bold in the workplace and be Christ in these dark places. But why did I still feel that I would best execute my passions through full time ministry…