Seniors...
I wrote this last year a couple months before graduation:
How much do we all hate the question..."what are you doing after graduation?"... I usually say "i dont know" and change the subject. Or I'll mention that I know what I'm doing for the six weeks after I graduate, but after that its completely up in the air. I go back and forth between being excited for what God is doing and scared out of my mind not having a clue. The other day, I started re-reading "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers and today, right as I was thinking once again about my lack of plans after graduation, this is what I read....
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WILL YOU GO OUT WITHOUT KNOWING?
"He went out, not knowing whither he went"-Hebrews 11:8
Have you been "out" in this way? If so, there is no logical statement possible when anyone asks you what you are doing. One of the difficulties in Christian work is this question--"What do you expect to do?" You do not know what you are going to do; the only thing you know is that God knows what He is dong. Continually revise your attitude towards God and see if it is a going out of everything, trusting in God entirely. It is this attitude that keeps you in perpetual wonder--you do not know what God is going to do next. Each morning you wake it is to be a "going out," building in confidence on God. "Take no thought for your life,... nor yet for your body"--- Take no thought for the things for which you did take thought before you "went out."
Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not twll you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He Is. Do you believe in a miracle-working God, and will you go out in surrender to Him until you are not surprised an atom at anything He does?
Suppose God is the God you know Him to be when you are nearest to him-- what an impertinence worry is! Let the attitude of the life be a continual "going out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have an ineffable charm about it which is a satisfaction to Jesus. You have to learn to go out of convictions, out of creeds, out of experiences, until so far s your faith is concerned, there is nothing between yourself and God."
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I especially like the second paragraph because all too often I'm begging God to tell me what direction he wants me to go in. I've found so many times in my life when i'm only focussing on figuring out who God is instead of what he's doing, he gives me little clues as to where i'm supposed to go.
Anyway, I thought this may be somewhat encouraging for everyone facing huge change in the next few months. I know it was for me :)
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How much do we all hate the question..."what are you doing after graduation?"... I usually say "i dont know" and change the subject. Or I'll mention that I know what I'm doing for the six weeks after I graduate, but after that its completely up in the air. I go back and forth between being excited for what God is doing and scared out of my mind not having a clue. The other day, I started re-reading "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers and today, right as I was thinking once again about my lack of plans after graduation, this is what I read....
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WILL YOU GO OUT WITHOUT KNOWING?
"He went out, not knowing whither he went"-Hebrews 11:8
Have you been "out" in this way? If so, there is no logical statement possible when anyone asks you what you are doing. One of the difficulties in Christian work is this question--"What do you expect to do?" You do not know what you are going to do; the only thing you know is that God knows what He is dong. Continually revise your attitude towards God and see if it is a going out of everything, trusting in God entirely. It is this attitude that keeps you in perpetual wonder--you do not know what God is going to do next. Each morning you wake it is to be a "going out," building in confidence on God. "Take no thought for your life,... nor yet for your body"--- Take no thought for the things for which you did take thought before you "went out."
Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not twll you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He Is. Do you believe in a miracle-working God, and will you go out in surrender to Him until you are not surprised an atom at anything He does?
Suppose God is the God you know Him to be when you are nearest to him-- what an impertinence worry is! Let the attitude of the life be a continual "going out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have an ineffable charm about it which is a satisfaction to Jesus. You have to learn to go out of convictions, out of creeds, out of experiences, until so far s your faith is concerned, there is nothing between yourself and God."
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I especially like the second paragraph because all too often I'm begging God to tell me what direction he wants me to go in. I've found so many times in my life when i'm only focussing on figuring out who God is instead of what he's doing, he gives me little clues as to where i'm supposed to go.
Anyway, I thought this may be somewhat encouraging for everyone facing huge change in the next few months. I know it was for me :)
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