Dreams, Occupations, and the Questions of Life
I'm still thinking about what I should do with my life -- no, what I want to do with my life. This just happens to be the main question I'm asking right now, and is closely connected to the more basic question, who am I?
I believe God made all of me, and put in me my desires and dreams and everything that makes me, me. This means that I am unwilling to accept that what God wants me to do isn't what I want to do. That could be true, but it means I should change. What I do should come out of who I am. It's unnatural, and probably unwise, to ask what I should be doing without asking who I am.
When we ask these questions about occupation and career, we need an extra measure of determination to get to the bottom of things, to be true to ourselves and true to who God made us to be. I'm reading a book about twenty-somethings, and in it the author says that many people who she talked to knew what they wanted to do but weren't doing it. Why? They got sidetracked in the process and didn't ask all of those questions. They allowed what the world says about them, who they should be, and what they should do, to be more important than what God says about it.
If you're somewhere in that process like I am myself, let me challenge you to ask a couple questions that the author of this book recommended. I've heard these questions before, but maybe for the first time I am making the effort to think thoroughly about my answers.
The first question is: If time and money were not a factor in my life, and I could do anything I wanted to, what would I do? Some of you may know what your answer is; others, like myself, may need to delve into your lives and hearts deeper than you have before to find those things. (A resource that I highly recommend to help you in answering this question is the book Cure for the Common Life by Max Lucado.) Many of us think it's a fun question to think about but too unrealistic to be practical. That's where the second question comes in: What is stopping you from doing that (that thing or things)? The things that we come up with as obstacles to our dreams and passions may seem insurmountable. But if you're daunted by the task, I suggest to you that you may never know how much fun life can be until you do those things.
And let me remind you, no thing that you have a passion for doing is useless or trivial in the eyes of our Father. No matter how insignificant it seems, I guarantee you God can use it in much greater ways than you can imagine.
I believe God made all of me, and put in me my desires and dreams and everything that makes me, me. This means that I am unwilling to accept that what God wants me to do isn't what I want to do. That could be true, but it means I should change. What I do should come out of who I am. It's unnatural, and probably unwise, to ask what I should be doing without asking who I am.
When we ask these questions about occupation and career, we need an extra measure of determination to get to the bottom of things, to be true to ourselves and true to who God made us to be. I'm reading a book about twenty-somethings, and in it the author says that many people who she talked to knew what they wanted to do but weren't doing it. Why? They got sidetracked in the process and didn't ask all of those questions. They allowed what the world says about them, who they should be, and what they should do, to be more important than what God says about it.
If you're somewhere in that process like I am myself, let me challenge you to ask a couple questions that the author of this book recommended. I've heard these questions before, but maybe for the first time I am making the effort to think thoroughly about my answers.
The first question is: If time and money were not a factor in my life, and I could do anything I wanted to, what would I do? Some of you may know what your answer is; others, like myself, may need to delve into your lives and hearts deeper than you have before to find those things. (A resource that I highly recommend to help you in answering this question is the book Cure for the Common Life by Max Lucado.) Many of us think it's a fun question to think about but too unrealistic to be practical. That's where the second question comes in: What is stopping you from doing that (that thing or things)? The things that we come up with as obstacles to our dreams and passions may seem insurmountable. But if you're daunted by the task, I suggest to you that you may never know how much fun life can be until you do those things.
And let me remind you, no thing that you have a passion for doing is useless or trivial in the eyes of our Father. No matter how insignificant it seems, I guarantee you God can use it in much greater ways than you can imagine.
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