Why Kauai Bible College? (Part 1/3)
Last summer I went through a period where I was not walking closely with God, and I wrestled with questions about my faith. Questions like "Why would a good God send people to hell?" and "Do I really believe in God, or have I just been indoctrinated by my upbringing?". Eventually I worked through some of these issues and decided that yes, I do believe in God, and I want to serve Him.
But it wasn't until one night in October or November that I finally sat down and had a really good quiet time with God. I was reading in Ruth, and the verses right at the beginning jumped out at me:
Now it came about in the days when the judges governed, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi; and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. Now they entered the land of Moab and remained there.
Elimelech moves his family away from Israel into the land of Moab. Moab in the Bible is Israel's bitter enemy. So it seems that Elimelech went off on his own, rather than being where God wanted him to be.
As I was reading this, I just felt convicted that I was not where God wanted me to be. So I decided to quit my job. I would stay on until the end of the project, and then move on to wherever God wanted me to go. I started toying with the idea of attending Bible College, but at this point it was just as likely that I would spend some time travelling or working on my own projects at home.
Obviously this is part 1 of 3, so there will be more, but I was curious if there were specific reasons why you felt that you were not where God wanted you to be?
ReplyDeleteWell, I think that God really should be the most important part of life, and He wasn't while I was working at Airtight. I was letting other things be more important than God, and as a result of that I wasn't really happy even though I had a sweet job. So when I say I wasn't where God wanted me to be, I don't mean I was in the wrong geographical location, but that my priorities weren't straightened out. And I thought that in order to effectively prioritize, I would need have God as the focus of my time. Spending 40-50 hours a week at work and 5-10 hours with God is just not balanced.
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