New Job

God has always been faithful to me, and yet I often find myself trying to diversify my metaphorical "life portfolio".  I put my trust in God, or at least I say I do... but then I tend to have a plan 'B' and stress out, and have a lot of physical anxiety,  just in case God decides to leave me in the cold.

    As I have mentioned in a previous post, God has been showing me that I need to change my view of what it means to be successful.  I need to stop looking at the end result only.  I need to focus on being obedient to God every moment and how it turns out is not up to me.   God has also been showing me that this is how His provision works as well.  For 9 months I have been praying for a Job.  I felt very strongly that God wanted me to go to college.   I concluded that a job follows college, and that I was going to get a Job next.   However I did not get a job right away.  I applied and applied and only one person responded to my application.  In the meantime I was living with my parents, I had no friends close by, all I had was my family and my room.  I kept thinking God will provide for me eventually.  I will trust him and as soon as I get a job that will be His provision.  I had some money saved up from working during college but around September I decided to work for a temp agency to earn some money in the meantime.  I was also applying to be an Officer in the Army in case I did not get a job.  I worked for a Factory through the temp agency for about a month,  but due to me taking time off for my Army physical and fitness test I was let go.  In November I had to start paying back my loans.  I no longer had a job, all I had was the money I had saved which, was about 4 months worth of loan payments.  I was pretty stressed out about it.  I really did not want to start lifting boxes for the temp agency again, my back was hurting, I was bored, and kept looking to God for his provision.  At the end of January the Army called and told me I was denied the Officer position.  I only had enough money for one more loan payment, February.   Pretty much I needed a job, whether it was working for Mcdonalds, lifting boxes somewhere or an engineering position.  starting at the end of January within a two week period, three different companies contacted me for an interview.  I interviewed with two of them.  The second company which was located less than 2 miles from my house hired me 2 days after my interview.  It was perfect timing.    I thanked God so much for His provision, and thanked Him for finally providing for me.  Then He showed me, that I was wrong in looking at it that way.  He told me He was providing for me the entire 9 months I was applying for a Job.  There was not a SINGLE second during those 9 months that He forgot about me.   And the fact that I have this new job is not going to stop Him from continuing to provide for me.  The job I received from God is not the end result of my prayer for Gods provision.  It is only a continuation of His provision.   

Our soul waits for the LORD;
he is our help and our shield.
For our heart is glad in him,
because we trust in his holy name.
Let your steadfast love, O LORD, be upon us,
even as we hope in you

That is the end of psalm 33

Our hope is in the Lord, not our Jobs

Our hope is in an amazing wonderful always faithful God