Life Choices the Christian Makes:

We finally had to turn on our heat today.  The low temperature tonight will be just above freezing.  The climate is good in southwest Alabama--except that it can get awfully hot and muggy in the summertime.  And then, there are those hurricane possibilities with which one must reckon. 

 

I've been thinking a lot lately about people who say they would never live in a place with a particular climate--bitter cold, scorching heat, heavy snow.  Thinking of that made me think of all the other reasons people say they wouldn't move to certain areas--parents, children, grandchildren, topography, too rural, too urban, and on and on. 

 

We all have our preferences, of course, as to the types of places we would like to live.  I have mine as well.  But as a Christian, my own preferences are not primary.  As Christians, are we not to follow the leading of God, going where He would have us go, doing the job that He would have us do?

 

I particularly wonder about ministers who state such qualifications in their obedience to the call of God to ministry.  They are called to ministry.  Should they not be willing to go wherever their Master calls if they would truly be faithful servants? 

 

As a minister myself, it's hard for me to rule out anything.  How can I know where God may want me to serve until the specific call comes?  He knows our limitations, our preferences, our interests, and our abilities; but He also knows His plans for us. It is all well and good for us to have preferences and desires, dreams and ambitions.  But the life choices the Christian makes are not ultimately His to make.  Who can say what wonderful things God has prepared for those who love Him?