GloriousByFaith

5months later and still no job.

I pray you have been encouraged & God has spoken to you through my experience concerning not having a job. I expect that at this point you’ll predict that this post will be about how I got the job of my dreams. Rather this is the point where I begin to question, was the waiting all in vain?

Should I just have accepted whichever job I was given? When a whole other agency called me with a cover shift at the same school that let me go should I have accepted that? Should I have taken tutoring students more seriously? What if I had started up a lucrative business and worked hard at that? The what if’s. 

That looks like a whole lot of anxiety. And what does the Bible say about when we’re anxious…

Phil 4:6-7

I surrendered these thoughts to God in prayer. 

To let these thoughts consume me would do a great disservice to all the beautiful things God has taught me in this time. Even the opportunities I have had along the way.

All I could ask for at this point was a clear word from Him. 

The Holy Spirit brought me back to the essence of faith.

A month prior I started to think about how the different journeys of the characters in the Bible played out, particularly in the OT. None were straightforward. 

I made the decision to reach out to the agency I was with when I lost my job. Initially there were many reasons why I felt justified for not continuing with them. One reason being, it was not aligned with the true desire I had for my career progression. I was convinced that this was how I should exercise my faith. Believing that God was able to place me where I truly desired to be. There was little to no progress as I tried to reach this goal. It dawned on me that, all that I was chasing will eventually happen on a greater level but not in this moment. The job I wanted in this time was to be a Teaching Assistant in a Secondary school. Now, I’m still on the journey of completing my degree and moving towards obtaining a teaching qualification. This is in a year and a few months’ time. And I am not desperate in any way to move into this space. As for having a career it’s just the one I desire to have. 

The literal definition of faith taking a step even when you cannot see the step you’re taking.

 2 Corinthians 5:7 CSB

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

And why worry when God will be there right beside you as you take that step. 

So I had to take a step of faith. I contacted my previous agency for any job availability’s. 

It’s okay to choose what you avoided for so long or to choose something again.  

Ecclesiastes 1:9 GNT

What has happened before will happen again. What has been done before will be done again. There is nothing new in the whole world. 

It doesn’t mean ‘I’m going backwards’ in a spiritual sense. What is presented is just another chance to take the test.  The test of faith, which can produce great things. Can I walk in faith and choose the same path that didn’t end well for me again?

Faith takes humility 

“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.”

‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭11‬:‭8‬ ‭NIV‬‬

In Abraham’s case, he had to take a path he had never taken before. Still, it was one that would lead him to the promise.

Just know , as long as you abide in God, the step you take can never be a false step. God is a redeemer , who can work all things out for your good. 

Like me, Sarah was someone who had to choose the same path again. 

I wasn’t choosing my previous agency out of fear that God couldn’t provide me with a job. It was just an action I had to take in faith, based on what I believe I had received from God. 

It was time for Sarah to do that which she had done at the beginning, although it unraveled as some sort of ineffective, vain action at first. Due to this experience, her faith would be tested even more. It wasn’t having sex ultimately that would give her a child. But the having faith. It was strange to Rachel to have try for a child considering going down this path before to realise she was barren. 

God makes all things beautiful in His time. 

Genesis 21:1-2 GNT

The LORD blessed Sarah, as he had promised, [2] and she became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham when he was old. The boy was born at the time God had said he would be born.

I worked at a place thinking it would give me the stability I was desiring. It didn’t work out there. Although, I had to press on. Going into the place that was not sown as Abraham did.  Now it’s time like Rachel to revisit what didn’t work before, that’s another dimension of testing my faith. 

God desired a relationship with humanity.

Then sin came and hindered this.

God didn’t give up. Although, the pursuit to have a relationship with humanity did not work before He sent His Son to restore this grand idea. Still not knowing if people would choose Him.

This Easter, be reminded of the author and finisher of our faith. 

Abide in Him. Take the step with Him. 

As long as you are with Him things will work out for your good.