Ecclesiastes 3:1, 6
Ecclesiastes 3:1, 6 "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: …a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away...”
There have been several times in my life when the Lord’s leading was clear. Going back to school to finish my Bachelor’s degree was one. Co-leading the Sexual Healing class at the local crisis pregnancy center was another.
But there have been other times, like right now, when I have no idea what His will for me is—or rather, when I should do it.
I believe the Lord made me for tour directing, travel writing, and travel photography. But He also gave me the job I have now, so I could support myself and my kids until my kids reached adulthood. Well, they’re adults now, and I’m chafing at the bit to change careers soon. The problem is, I don’t know if I’m supposed to keep the job I have or throw it away for the bottom rung of the travel/tour career ladder. I can’t do both, once the travel assignments exceed my current job’s vacation time.
I don’t know if this is the time for stepping out in faith or waiting on the Lord some more. I pray, but I get no answers. Just more silence. And so I stay, but I’m miserable in my job, but I’m afraid to leave it for the vast unknown. I feel stuck in my job and stuck in indecision.
My indecision sends me back to the Word. In Acts, the early church made many of its decisions through the leading of the Holy Spirit. And they made many others just by deciding something, without there being any mention of prayer or the Spirit. The Psalms, though, are filled with looking to the Lord for help and waiting on Him.
What’s the answer, if you’re wrestling with a decision? How do you know whether to act or to wait? I don’t have the answers. But I know the One who does, and we need to seek Him—not our answers—first. Study the Scriptures and pray. Pray without ceasing. When the time is right, the answers will be clear.
“Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.” Psalm 27:14
Brenda
There have been several times in my life when the Lord’s leading was clear. Going back to school to finish my Bachelor’s degree was one. Co-leading the Sexual Healing class at the local crisis pregnancy center was another.
But there have been other times, like right now, when I have no idea what His will for me is—or rather, when I should do it.
I believe the Lord made me for tour directing, travel writing, and travel photography. But He also gave me the job I have now, so I could support myself and my kids until my kids reached adulthood. Well, they’re adults now, and I’m chafing at the bit to change careers soon. The problem is, I don’t know if I’m supposed to keep the job I have or throw it away for the bottom rung of the travel/tour career ladder. I can’t do both, once the travel assignments exceed my current job’s vacation time.
I don’t know if this is the time for stepping out in faith or waiting on the Lord some more. I pray, but I get no answers. Just more silence. And so I stay, but I’m miserable in my job, but I’m afraid to leave it for the vast unknown. I feel stuck in my job and stuck in indecision.
My indecision sends me back to the Word. In Acts, the early church made many of its decisions through the leading of the Holy Spirit. And they made many others just by deciding something, without there being any mention of prayer or the Spirit. The Psalms, though, are filled with looking to the Lord for help and waiting on Him.
What’s the answer, if you’re wrestling with a decision? How do you know whether to act or to wait? I don’t have the answers. But I know the One who does, and we need to seek Him—not our answers—first. Study the Scriptures and pray. Pray without ceasing. When the time is right, the answers will be clear.
“Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.” Psalm 27:14
Brenda
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