jobs and trees

In all that is happening to you, the job, the inability to find an alternative I must be honest and say it fits perfectly with the theory I have developed through my experience this year – that the time for just talking “faith” has come to an end – that it’s time to submit to God’s circumstance and face the world confident and not dismayed.

It has been easy to say this to myself, and to watch it all work out – that one’s provision is entirely from God and not in the numbers we earn, that we are called to wait for Him to arrange the next position for us, that we are to show that it is possible to willingly submit to whatever the world throws at us (even if they call themself Christian) and that this is what glorifies God.

Waiting for Him.
Trusting Him.
Knowing that He will provide all that we need, over and beyond the numbers.
Being able to be at peace in the knowledge He is doing this to ultimately train us to handle the future.
The theory says that if you can’t handle trusting Him on £3000/month you’re certainly not going to cope on the world order’s zero income allowed for enemies of the state.

The theory states that the key factor this training is meant to polish is “trust in Him”. Absolute trust. The kind of trust that says yes I see everything that is happening and yet I know that what I see is not what will happen, because I don’t see the full picture.

I have learnt this in my life. I have started writing books about it that have been easier to write on paper than to say to you, my friend, that we’re not supposed to be panicking, looking for jobs where jobs don’t exist, getting hung up on the waves that toss those who have no trust about. We are children of a LIVING God. He really lives, He really takes care, and He knows everything there needs to be known. The choices are His to make as to what job we get and who we are assigned to work with.

The choice we have to make is to submit willingly. The choice we have power in Him to make is to embrace wherever He puts us with enthusiasm. We’re not to get caught up in the looking around and falling over in the shock of not finding anything.

We’re to know that glory only goes completely to God when there is absolutely no possibility that it could have happened otherwise.

Remember the trust theory I had in Arniston? That it is only pure trust when it is beyond the outer fringes of what could happen, what might happen, what I might be able to do alone, what I could do with the contacts I know, what could be done in the community I’m in, what the government could do, what the world could do.

Our trust can only be said to be validly in Him when He is given complete outer darkness to work in and we allow Him to work in it, showing to the world that it is possible to trust.

Well, you,re in that situation now. Everything that is happening to YOU, is completely in accordance with the experiences I have gone thru, with the theories, and with the belief I have that it’s all a training and testing session to prove the faith you say you have.

It isn’t supposed to be easy in the world’s sense, it’s supposed to be miraculous. That you can trust while all things are boiling, bubbling and seething around you is the brightest light we can shine. We are to get our faith from Him, we are to trustingly and lovingly ask the Father for those missing attributes of trust and love to be seen in our lives. He is really the source of all things including the things He says we must have, like faith and trust.

It is humbling to have to ask for them yet ask we must. That it is His choice to give is wonderful yet it is our choice to show them when He provides them.

Sure. Look around at the job market. There will genuinely be an amazing event that will spring out of all hopelessness when it is time to move. If you’re not aware that the market is dead you’ll not be aware that it is a miracle.

The difference is that we are to know there is no hope of getting out of what seems to be the deepest pit but believe that it will happen. Until then we can choose to trust Him.

We can show a watching world that there is something in this faith. We can listen only to the voices of hope from other people who believe and we can choose to not ask or hear the dead ways of the unbeliever.

I believe you are where you are to learn to exhibit faith. You are particularly placed to be able to show skeptics that there is hope in Him. If you listen to those who don’t share the same hope, you have death telling you how to live. For all my words I too have succumbed to their way of thinking, but the fact is that is not how we think. How can we proclaim we have a faith and yet show fear to the world?

Where is faith in that? Is faith only for those times we’re sitting alone with our Bible?

You’re in the refiners fire. Choose to show that you really are pure gold. We do not take any advice from a world that sees no purpose in Jesus. We believe the words of the Bible, and we show those who do not believe that we do believe ESPECIALLY when it looks gloomiest.

This is the only food you need. Don’t talk faith and then not do it. That is the quickest way to say that it’s just a fairy tale.

So what do you believe? Are you prepared to go back in there saying you have seen the light and your hope is a real flame or are you choosing to be luke warm? Is this a real thing? If so, shake off the hopelessness that you have chosen to put on.

Embrace the fact that there aren’t jobs hanging on trees for the very purpose that you can show hope and faith with a spring in your step and an enthusiasm for life that only you can choose to wear. The more you accept that you are hard done by, that there is no hope, the more hopeless you will feel. It’s not about feeling, it’s about fact. It’s a decision.

It’s a decision to live the faith. Faith is only faith when it appears there is no hope and you show hope. So make this decision too – hope in God and show that faith lives.

It’ll radically change your life.