Honestly folks, like a lot of you, I have found myself many times feeling like I am living the movie "Office Space" I have an awesome job, don't get me wrong, but I never thought the financial industry would be where I would ever be. When I first started I was pumped (mostly for the salary) and I was kicking booty...they put me full time within a couple months, and now, 2 years later I find myself slacking off terribly, staying on facebook all day, making mistakes, and wishing I was somewhere else all the time.
Satan.
I have let satan get into my head and he's using my job as a downer ya know? As I have begun to progress into grad school, praying about the fact that I want to be an addiction counselor, I wonder sometimes, where is my life going God? Am I going to stay at Security State Bank for 40 more years? Or do you have something bigger planned? I always thought God had something bigger planned for me...but in true Chelsi nature, I want God to want for me what Chelsi wants for me, which is not necessarily surrender. God chose to deal with me tonight on that.
When reading God brought me to 2 places:
Ecc 9:10-Whatever you do, do with all your might for there is no activity, or planning or wisdom or knowledge to Sheol, or the (underworld afterlife we like to call hell)
Give everything 100 percent Chelsi. Thats what God is telling me. We don't do that, we may give 1110 percent to our jobs, and 1 percent to our families. But in giving 100 percent to God we are giving 100 percent to every aspect in our lives. When we are Godly wives, mothers and husbands, fathers, our children and spouses are influenced by God working through you. Your attitude is different, working with others is different. When God is burning inside you the fire spreads and it becomes out of control.
God has provided me with this job in this horrible economy, a job in finance at that. I should look at that as a gift from God, not an interruption to my TV schedule. I don't give 100 percent when i'm there which means i'm not giving God 100%. God wants it all or nothing.
Revelation says in Chapter 3, know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!16So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
God wants us to give our lives 100 percent in everything we do, whether it be work, look it as an opportunity, whether it be school, know that God is preparing you for something bigger, and be happy about life. Its too short...don't wait...Give it all to God.
Hi Chelsi - This is Elena, A's little "big ;)" sister...ANYWAY - she fowarded me your blog site and girl am I so glad for that after reading just even this one blog! Girl I am so on this journey as well and I've read those same words!! And it affected me as well the same way! Amazing, no?! How crazy is that, that Gods word is to true and perfect in that two different people in two different situations (however I find that alot of what u go through, I too have shared) in two different parts of the world can read one book...and that goes for anyone out there who has ever REALLY "digested" the words in there...can read that same book and the word speaks such a clear message, that in turn change your life and attitude in so many ways...no matter what that may be in or for how long you've felt that way about something!! WoW! And youre right - i went throug that myself. When God called me - i realized jus that - and i became on fire for Him and realized that I wasnt giving him my ALL...therefore my life was incomplete in so many ways that i couldnt even begin to understand at that point! But when I made that shift in spirit - talk about eye opening and now that although much has not changed in my life in terms of where i am at or what i have, etc.. MUCH and EVERYTHING has changed in those very same "things" but in different sense...because I can now see everything for what it really is...in the worldy sense and deal with it as such...but in the spiritual sense...wow -- talk about HOT or COLD -- right or wrong! That took the If's right out of my life!!! Thank You Lord!!! Amen chelsi!
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