God works wonders

God works in mysterious ways. 

This is a nice story from Our Daily Bread: Julie Ackerman Link tells a story about her friend, whom she tells as one of the smartest people she’d known in college. He graduated with honor and went on to study at a respected seminary. He served a small church as a pastor for several years and then accepted a call to another small church far from family and friends.

After 12 years at that church, he sensed that the congregation needed new leadership, so he stepped down. He hadn’t been offered a job at a bigger church or a teaching position at a college or seminary. In fact, he didn’t even have another job. He just knew that God was leading him in a different direction, so he followed.

I can relate. Two years ago, I decided to decline a well-paying teaching position and decided to go to graduate school, blog and write online for almost two years. It was a risky leap of faith—rather than fate—for I left it all to Him.

In January, I received a call from the library where I used to work part-time way back when I was college. I owed a lot of gratitude to the people in that library because without them, I may have not made ends meet and finished my studies. I asked God for guidance. Immediately, it came to my mind that they badly needed my service because the library has turned out to be understaffed. I told myself, when I need work, the library opened its doors to me. Now that I have the capacity to give, I decided to accept the job offer, even if it paid minimum. I have no clamor. I didn’t even had second thoughts about the idea. And I’m happy because I leave it all to God.