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Arthur,
Please continue to pray for me. Since our meeting, I've been
struggling with leaving the security of a "steady" salary.
It's so hard to know what is the best way to go
Thank You.
I sure will. Thanks for updating me. May I make a suggestion?
Write down the 10 most important areas of your life in order
from 1 - 10. This is the order in which you need to live your
life, give your time to, etc. We must make sure that the lesser
serves the greater, not vice versa.
When faced with choices, we often don't know what to do
because we want it all. But, we can't have it all. We must
choose one. Fit the choices into your list above and see where
it fits, and then choose the greater.
Too often, we have our lists ordered out in our minds one
way but in actuality are living it upside down, where we spend
way more effort, time, etc. on #4 than #1. We end up, in reality,
giving up #1 or 2 in order to keep #4 or 5 (that's the greater
serving the lesser). That's when life gets difficult, because
in our minds we know we desire #1 or 2 but in reality we're
living #4 or 5 as if it were #1 or 2 and it doesn't seem right.
As I said, I know I can't have it all, so I'd rather lose
the lesser and keep the greater than the other way around.
Where life gets confusing is when we really haven't clearly
determined our values and value structure.
Someone once rightly said, "When your values are clear,
decisions are easy to make." Think about that. It's so true.
It's not so easy when we've laid our values out horizontally,
with equal value. It becomes much clearer when you take your
horizontal and make it vertical, where there's now a higher
and lower.
What I don't want to be guilty of is what Jesus charged
the church at Ephesus with in Rev. 2: "I know (all these good
things you've done for Me - my paraphrase) ... but this I
have against you, that you have left your first love." Wow.
So, the Lord is to be the focus and the reason you stay
or leave, come or go, or whatever you do. "Whether then you
eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory
of God." (1Cor. 10:31) Anything less is sin.
So, to me, the issue doesn't really have much to do with
the "steady salary", for the Lord knows how to feed His people
just fine (He feeds the sparrows, how much more us?).
The issue is more what your calling in life is. What are
you really called to do, who are you really called to be,
and whom are you really called to serve?
Don't know if that helps but I hope so. I'm praying for
you. Keep me posted, brother, and let me know if there's anything
we can do to help.
And remember, you never have to be afraid to do the right
thing.
Blessings,
Arthur
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