Does Stuff Actually Happen To Me?
Today, I get the very thing I have been praying about: I was let go from staff at the IT firm I have been employed at since January.
“Let go” may not be the correct term: I was dropped from staff to contractor. Now I am paid by the hour and I have more time.
But did my boss so happened to drop me from staff?
Ruth 2:3 (ESV) So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech.
Ruth did not happen to stumble upon the field of Boaz. Ruth didn’t start working in Boaz’s field by chance and then God thought, “oh snap, maybe if those kids get together, then I can keep using that bloodline when I descend down, become flesh and save all of mankind for my glory.”
No!
God had it planned all along.
Holy Spirit nudged Ruth in that direction. She was responsive to it because her heart belong to God and no one else. Why? Boaz and Ruth were to become married and Ruth would be conceived by God to born Obed.
Obed is the grandfather of David. It is this same bloodline of Boaz and Ruth down to Obed down to Jesse down to David that Jesus Christ was born into and became flesh. Not just on his stepfather’s side, Joseph’s but through Mary as well. (It had to be that way because of the blood curse that God placed on the bloodline later on in Jeremiah 22:30 but that is a post for another day.)
So was I really “let go” or does God has controlled over all creation? Let me see the glory of God in my life and the lives around me.
Wow, Joe. WOW
I recently experienced a cut in hours at my job. This sparked a LOT of conversations between my husband and me, regarding what I really want to do with my time/talents.
Yeah. I think there’s a divine hand in all this… I really do.
All I know is that if God does not bless me to be a pastor/teacher, then I will use the free time that I have to study, learn, listen and prepare as though I am one.
I have had nothing but God, his heart and his words on my mind nearly every second of every day since having that talk with my boss. That is a feeling I don’t want to let go. I always want to be thinking about His words upon my heart and struggle and wrestle on how to teach it.
It is such a beautiful thing.
i love mark driscoll.
“it JUST SO HAPPENED”
hehe..
i love it.