| | I had a fascinating conversation with Hobes2888 on Sunday about the nature of decision making for Christians. He referred to our lives being lived on the "boundary between the physical and the spiritual". For every big decision in our lives, there is a certain amount of spiritual discernment needed to find the "will of God", yet at the same time, there is personal effort necessary to carry out a decision. I often fear that my spiritual eyes aren't focussed very well and I miss my chance to partake of God's perfect leading in my life. However, maybe I have misunderstood God's permissive will. Perhaps He sometimes allows us to have the blessed privelege of choosing between multiple (good) options and allows us to act on them with using the reasoning He has blessed us with.
I'm readying myself for this struggle of ideas when and if I am offered a teaching contract for September. If I have reservations about the school, do I take the job or wait for another oppurtunity to come by? If I like the school, do I evaluate whether I really want to be a high school teacher in the first place? If no schools offer me a contract, does that invariably mean that God is leading me to walk away from high school teaching altogether? (Perhaps it means He is leading me to apply for music school...??) "Lord, I know that I lack discernment and that my spritual eyes can not always see what Your best will for my life is. Teach me Lord to listen to Your Spirit placed in me and to trust that Your Spirit has dominion (Rom 8:26-28) over my deceitful heart (Jer 17:9-10). Help me to know when to act according to the reason You have blessed me with and when to wait on Your specific leading in my life."
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