Apr 17 2006
Good news!!!
Well, gentle readers, last week I hinted at some good news that I would likely be posting on my blog at some point in the near future. Many of you already know this good news, as I’ve not really been quiet about it in person…however, on the off chance that anyone out there doesn’t know, I will post it here.
A week ago last Wednesday, I was told about a job opening in Newman, California by someone who has known me for a little while. I will not divulge who told me about this job, except to say that they had knowledge of the job requirements itself as well as knowledge of my capabailities. They recommended that I apply, and recommended me for the job to this company in Newman. I sent my resume to this person Wednesday Night, and they gave it to the company on Thursday. On Friday, they called me to ask me to interview for the position on Monday. Tuesday, they offered me the job. Wednesday, I accepted it. Finally, on Thursday of last week, I tendered my resignation to my current employer. It was a whirlwind kind of week for me with everything happening too fast to really allow it to hit me, which was kind of good. I had to make a decision on whether to accept the job or not based solely on the benefits vs. the drawbacks rather than allowing emotion to have its hold. As I said, I accepted the job, and my last day at my current company is May 1st.
I’ve been sort of gun-shy the last week or so as a result of this tempestuous news. I thank all of my friends and family for praying for me…The Lord is gracious in His plans for me. Do I honestly think it was from God? In the sense that God is omniscient, He knew exactly what I needed…He knew that I needed to get a better job. In the sense that God is omnipotent, He could have given me the job or prevented me from getting the job if He didn’t want me to have it. All of that speaks to God’s plan for my life in this area. However, there’s more to it than that.
Without revealing too much of the details of anything in this job, it’s interesting to note that originally, I wasn’t really in favor of associating much with this person. Had I had my way, I wouldn’t even really know this person at all, let alone being recommended for this job. It’s not that I don’t like this person…I do. It’s just that circumstances forced me to associate with them when I would not have willingly put myself in this area. Furthermore, I had done some looking for a job before now. Nothing came to anything at all! I didn’t even get an interview, to be honest. It was a little disheartening, but Kim and I talked about what it could mean. Perhaps God was telling me that I shouldn’t be looking for a job, we reasoned. So we looked at a lot of things in our life and determined that it would be a good idea for us to stay with my current company. Sure, there were things I wasn’t really happy about with this company, but when is that not the case? How often do you find a company where you agree 100% with the decisions the company is making? Never. What you need to do is take the good with the bad and get the job done, and there were plenty of things about my current job situation with which I was very happy. So Kim and I planned to stay here.
It was almost immediately after we decided that we should stay that I found out about the job. It was almost as though God were showing me that after I had exhausted all my own attempts to find a job, He would exercise His awesome power in dropping one in my lap. This is not to say that we should never attempt to make things better, or that we shouldn’t make plans, etc. I believe that God gives us the ability to make plans, or to think, or to act so that we might exercise Christian prudence in our lives. That we might demonstrate to the world that Christ the Lord has risen today, Hallelujah! That we might show the world just how awesome a God it is that we serve. However, there are times when we must be still and know that He is God. This was one of those times. When I resolved to stay where I was because nothing was working out, He dropped something in my lap that was exactly what Kim and I had been looking for.
So in short, I will be leaving my current job at the end of this month. I will be moving to a job that will be admittedly difficult, but I will be in His will, which is ultimately where I want to be. This job offer is awesome, as only His plans can be…both now and in the foreseeable future! I could not have planned it better…because I did not plan it. Isn’t that cool?
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