I have been offered a job as a teacher in a Christian School. My husband says it is a form of Ministry. But they don't pay much and I just have Medicare if I accept.
I have been offered another job.
Great pay and benefits.
Do I disappoint God if I choose the second one?
I have to pay for my son college (Bible college). On of my teeth is falling out. Our home needs repairs.
What do I do?
Does God want me poor?
Why do I have to be put in this position? I want to do the right thing. But it is tremendously difficult to decide! I love the Lord! If I worry about money, does it mean I don't love Him? I don't understand.
Please help me
My first and most vital bit of advice to you would be to ask: Have you given God control of you? Are you doing so throughout each day? (
Romans 6:13; Romans 6:18-22; Romans 8:14; Romans 12:1; James 4:7-10; 1 Peter 5:6, etc.)
When God has the "steering wheel" of your life firmly in His hands (which you must relinquish to Him at the crossroads of
every choice to follow His will and way or your own), He will guide you in the way you should go. But God isn't going to force Himself upon you; He wants you to walk with Him in loving submission to Him. If you turn from Him, looking to your own wisdom and concerns, and begin to make decisions upon the basis of what you can see from your limited vantage point, you can be sure you'll quickly go awry. Trusting God begins with consciously, explicitly yielding yourself to Him - again and again as the choice to follow His will or your own faces you.
What is God's will? Is it generally a mystery? No. He lays out His will for us all in broad and exhaustive detail in His word, the Bible. Are you living in humble, loving, submitted obedience to the principles, commands, wisdom and truth God has given to you in His word? Are you applying these things to the daily events of your life? Do you know what they are? If not, it shouldn't be a surprise that God's particular will just for you is hard to discern. If you are ignoring His general will given to you in His word, why would He give you even more direction?
Generally, God isn't going to give us special supernatural indicators as to where we should go or what we should do. Instead, He intends that you should apply all the truth, wisdom, spiritual principles and commands of His word to the decisions that confront you. It is actually pretty rare for God to use a burning bush, or disembodied hand writing a message from God on a wall, or a talking donkey, or an angelic visit. It can seem like God is doing this at every turn in the Bible but the accounts of Scripture condense things, jumping from one significant event to another, sometimes crossing over many years without any comment. What the record of Scripture does teach us about God's will and how He communicates is that, if God has something special He wants you to know or do, He will make it as plain to you as a burning bush, or a visit from an angel, or as fire from heaven. If you don't have this sort of communication from God, He hasn't, I believe, anything beyond the commands of His word that He wants you to know. Simply take the truth, wisdom and so on from His word and apply it to your decision.
It helps, too, to have God's priorities for all of us firmly arranged in your mind in a hierarchy that you can readily apply to your life. Does the route you want to follow align with God's priorities for His children? It's hard to say if you don't know clearly what His priorities are, right? What's at the top of God's list of things that are important for us? How does the course you want to follow conform to His list? If it doesn't, submit to God's will and way and forsake the course you want to follow, trusting Him to be the good, and merciful, and loving God He promises to be to His children, providing for, and protecting, them as they walk in His way.
Matthew 6:25-33
25 "For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26 "Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?
27 "And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?
28 "And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin,
29 yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.
30 "But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!
31 "Do not worry then, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear for clothing?'
32 "For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
33 "But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
