So lately I've been asking God to show my husband and I what His plan is for our lives...in jobs, house vs. apartment, location, family, etc. However, I don't feel like I'm hearing anything. David's been looking for a job now since about November because his is supposed to end in June, which means we'll lose our insurance also. And with a baby on the way, this is not good. He has sent resumes out everywhere, and he hasn't received even as much as a call...until lately.
He is now in the top 40 to make it into the newest class of the fire department. The class started out with over 630 applicants, and now there is 40-some, of which they'll pick 20-30. And my questions lately have been this...is the reason we haven't heard as much as a call because God's plan is the fire department? Does God work like that? Or is this just a way that women get their hopes up for their husbands futures only to find out that things don't work out as we want them to? And are there times when our desires and God's plan match up? It says in Psalm 37:4 "Delight yourself in the LORD;And He will give you the desires of your heart." Now I know our desires won't always line up with His, but how do we pray to Him then...when we know our desire is one thing but we know His might be different? And should we expect Him to answer us when we pray, or how should we expect Him to answer us?
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great questions jessica...
two things come to mind for me:
1) think about this - when we "delight ourselves in the Lord" as i think Scripture really intends, then is it possible that the "desire of our heart" would begin to look less and less like what we think and more and more like the desire of His heart?
and 2) the older i get, the more i think i am coming to realize that "God's plan" is less a job, home, city, etc. and more about my becoming more like His Son in every aspect of my life - how i do the job i currently have, what i do within the city i currently live, etc. i think there is tremendous freedom in the selection of such things as long as they don't violate God's moral law as Scripture communicates. I think it's like God saying, "you choose the vocational path and, as long is doesn't violate Scripture, I am with you always."
just my thoughts...i may be way off
c
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