Month 9.
The month that was so far away that it wasn’t even a blip on my radar, but here we are. I’m still trying to grasp how the time has slipped through my fingers.
It’s the month that I’ve told people that I’d wait for to start praying about a specific topic, because praying about it any sooner felt foolish for some reason.
But, month 9. That would be a wise timeframe to start praying about said topic.
The future. *dun dun dun*
Ugh. I’m not ready. I shouldn’t be here yet. I had plenty of time…where did it go?
I’m not really a huge dreamer, honestly. I feel like I’m very simple minded. Dreaming big feels stressful because I’m not a visionary. I’d rather take a vision or dream and practically make it a reality.
With that, it does feel overwhelming to try and nail down what the next season of life should look like. It’s funny, because going on the Race felt like an escape from the corporate world. After going on my first international mission trip to Albania, nothing about a desk job seemed important.
And now the Lord has shown me, through the Race, that I think practically and logistically. I’ve learned that I actually really enjoy that type of work and ministry. I’m gifted in it. At the same time, the corporate world is all I’ve known post college, and anything else feels scary.
But that doesn’t mean that’s where the Lord is calling me right now. I just don’t know.
What I do know, is that the Lord needs people in all careers and work places. Being a missionary or a pastor aren’t the only ways the Lord uses people. He does use the missionary to be a vessel in a different part of the world. He does use the pastor to lead the body of Christ in truth and in the word of God.
But He also does use the person at a desk to speak to the people in the cubes around them.
There are lost humans in every career and work place. Who is going to be a light for them?
And if you do have a career or work in a place that doesn’t know the Lord, are you being a light for them?
I don’t know what the Lord has for me yet, but I do know that whatever it is, my mission is that He will be known and glorified in it.
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him…Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. – Colossians 3:17,23-24
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