Humbled
In the wake of a job interview that wasn’t all that great, and a job search that is seeming to yield no tangible results (no job offers yet), I have been humbled this week.
I am realizing that I am not “all that.” Sure, I walk into offices each week to interview with some potential employer and tell them how I am “all that” and more and why they should hire me (and I’m not lying about ANY of those things), but when you get right down to it, everything I do have has been given to me by God, and everything I will have in the future will come from Him. And that is humbling.
It is by God’s grace that He will provide me with a job and take care of me. I take comfort and trust in the truth of these verses:
Jeremiah 29:11 - “For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
2 Chronicles 16:9 - “For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.”
2 Corinthians 12:9,10 - “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
Wow, Jeremiah 29:11 was a word in season for me right now.
Thanks. I noticed the change in beat from this post to your “I got a job!” post. Isn’t it funny how easily we are swayed by the tide sometimes. I am always reminding myself that I am the same and so is Christ, no matter what conditions surround me at the time! Nice blog site Scotty.
Comment by Goodfortitude — December 11, 2008 @ 1:50 am