Some
weeks ago I had an interview for a new
job in Liverpool, I had prayed about it
and asked friends at Church to pray about it, and I expected to be offered the
job when I wasn’t offered it the job I
was disappointed but the company with whom I had the interview with, offered me
an interview for another job , again I prayed about and asked friends to pray
about it, and while I waited to hear if
I had been successful. When I was told I had been un-successful. I wasn’t
disappointed because I had already accepted a job offer from my previous
employer.
While
waiting for news about my interview, I felt that I needed to contact my
ex-employer, who surprisingly offered me
a job for a Customer Service Agent starting on the 1st of October on
a 6 month fixed term contract, I
accepted the offer, and am starting once more to work in Liverpool, The hours
are Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm.
I
had phoned the agency who get the interviews in
Liverpool to see was there any feedback on my interviews, they told me they would let me know, Then on Wednesday
the agency who get me the interviews phoned me to say that the company who had
the two interviews had reconsidered my application and interviews and would
like to offer me the job I had the first interview for the Call Centre Agent
I’m
part of The Healing Rooms team at my Church, and some dear friends of mine who are
responsible for leading the Healing Rooms had prayed for me that I would have
the right job, on the following
Sunday I was talking to an older friend
at Church, and he said what would happen if I was offered two jobs, I laughed because I didn’t except to be
offered two jobs.
Once
I had been offered the 2nd job,
I know I had a choice to make:-
1.
Job
A with my ex-employer is only for a 6 Month Fixed Term Contract, Full Time and
pays £14,300 a year, it’s Monday to
Friday 9am – 5pm.
2.
Job
B with the company who had re-considered my application is Full Time and Permanent and pays £15,300 a
year, however it’s 5 days out of 7 days and is 8am – 8pm.
I rang my friend and church leader , Geoff Grice to ask
for his advice, and he helped me consider my opinions, He asked me a great question If I
was married with a wife and children, which job would I choose, currently I’m single with no children, when I
considered my opinions based on Geoff’s question I would have automatically
gone for Job B, but I had a re-think about it since then and I know I would go for Job A, why do
you ask?
Job A although it pays £1,000 a year less, has more socialable
hours, I believe if I was a husband and
a father rather than earning a £1,000 extra a year, it’s better to give my wife and children quality
time and develop family relationships and be committed to being a husband and a
dad, which means building covenant
family relationships.
In our lives we all choices to make, sometimes it’s easier to make choices such
shall I go to Tesco or Asda to do my weekly Grocery Shop, and these decisions do not have a long term
effect, sometimes we have to make
decisions that have a long term effect and can effect others, when I knew for sure that God was leading me
here to Southport, I was expected all
the details to be in place, all the I’s dotted and the T’s crossed, it wasn’t. I came up on the train, with no money, no job
and nowhere to live, within 2 days, I had sorted out a flat , was on jobseekers
allowance and was looking for a job.
When we make decisions, if you like me you like everything
to be a simple choice, I prayed and
asked the Lord which job shall I take ?,
and the Lord told me that He trusted me enough to make the decision for
myself, and there wasn’t a right or wrong decision this time.
Sometimes we freeze, and try to think ahead and wonder if the decisions we make are beneficial
and other times we ask friends to pray for us, hoping they would make the decision
for us or help us clarify our thought patterns,
I asked several friends to pray for me this week, and all the advice I’ve
had has been different, and it’s easy to become confused because friends a,c,f,
and h say one thing and friends b, d, e and I say something else, however at the end of the day there is only
one person who can make the decision and that’s ourself!
I had an interesting update on Facebook earlier this week, some dear friends are starting a " new expression of church" here in Southport and I love my friends dearly, it's easy to consider because my friends have been an inspiration to me that I consider a) joining this " new expression " of church, b) to be part of this " new expression " of church and remain part of my current church, none of the meeting times clash and after prayerful consideration there was no choice to make, I will remain committed to my church family because God has both called me and planted me in my home church, it's easy to go with the flow and think it doesn't matter if I jump or partially jump ship and join this " new expression" of church but it's more important to remain plugged in where I am because I'm home and I'm in covenant with my church family, I'm sure others will join this " new expression" of church and I believe God will prosper them, but for me I'm home, and although the grass may seem greener on the other side it's not necessarily greener!
I had an interesting update on Facebook earlier this week, some dear friends are starting a " new expression of church" here in Southport and I love my friends dearly, it's easy to consider because my friends have been an inspiration to me that I consider a) joining this " new expression " of church, b) to be part of this " new expression " of church and remain part of my current church, none of the meeting times clash and after prayerful consideration there was no choice to make, I will remain committed to my church family because God has both called me and planted me in my home church, it's easy to go with the flow and think it doesn't matter if I jump or partially jump ship and join this " new expression" of church but it's more important to remain plugged in where I am because I'm home and I'm in covenant with my church family, I'm sure others will join this " new expression" of church and I believe God will prosper them, but for me I'm home, and although the grass may seem greener on the other side it's not necessarily greener!
Choose Life
Deuteronomy 30 :15-20 New American Standard Bible
15 “See, (S)I have set
before you today life and [t]prosperity, and death and [u]adversity; 16 in that
I command you today (T)to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to
keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you (U)may live
and multiply, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you
are entering to possess it. 17 But if your heart turns away and you will
not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them, 18 I
declare to you today that (V)you shall surely perish. You will not prolong your
days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter [v]and possess it.
19 (W)I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set
before you life and death, (X)the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your [w]descendants,
20 (Y)by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and (Z)by holding fast
to Him; (AA)for [x]this is your life and the length of your days, [y]that you
may live in (AB)the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”
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