We all face problems and stress in this world. After all Jesus said in this world you will have tribulation. He also tells us that those problems and stressful situations cause us to grow in Him by becoming like Him. That is a good thing to happen. But there comes a time when we are given "release" to know that what we were about is not what we have to be about.
An example may be your current job. Now I personally believe that God calls us into a "purpose" with our vocation and He equips us to do the job in a way for Him to be glorified by our success or failure. If you're like me you make have spent a majority of you life in the same job or working in with the same organization.
I've actually had several jobs while working for the same organization. Teacher, coach, counselor, acting Principal, night school principal, summer school principal, principal, assistant principal all are different jobs with different situations calling for some different skills. I'd like to think that I have done a good job at all of these jobs and that I'm worthy of my position because of my having experience and knowledge that come with years of service.
My job now is very difficult because I deal with young students who have made mistakes and have been put out of their home schools. Drugs, weapons, fights, threats, you name it they have done it. The causes, who actually knows? Mother, father, family, lack of family, prenatal care, being dropped on their head, what ever. Difficult but purposeful. It gives me a sense of worth that for most of the last 36 years I have not felt. Making a difference in one life is great but having the opportunity to make things better for many kids is what it is all about.
You reach a point that you examine the scales and notice it takes more on your side than it does the other. Paying more, getting less, sacrificing more, affecting less, investing more with less return. Helps me see God's hand more clearly.
Today it became very evident that I can continue to work where I am and make some difference but the cost has become to high. It's kinda a feeling that you have been given permission to change post in the battle. That your commander has said I need you at another post now, I release you from this responsibility.
So released I am to face another battle, to take on another responsibility. I'm sure it will be under the same commander with the same purposes. I need not hope I know that my commander/leader will not change and my purpose will not change.
I know who holds the future. In the book of Jeremiah God tells us he knows the plan for us, it is for us to look at His purpose and see when He is saying "I release you to do my purpose some where else."
These thing don't happen over night and once given release you don't, you can't just walk away but you can think more clearly of what the next post will be.
I ain't dead yet, neither are you!
