Yesterday, in conversation with one of my co-workers who was a direct hire into the position I would like to be hired on as (I'm currently a temp), I came to find out how much take home pay he gets each check. It's something like $1000 more a month than I make now. Wow. One of my goals in this job is to be hired full time as a process operator (the position I mentioned above), and should that happen, and that really is the starting pay, I could get completely out of debt in 20 months and be able to support a family.
Tonight, at Ignite, I couldn't get this idea out of my head, and it was distracting me from worshiping the Lord. I found my self singing one thing with my brain actively saying "I hope I get that position. I hope in this. Hope hope hope." Note the train of thought here is focused on hoping in getting a job, not in Christ. My active hope in that moment was in making money and having a good position.
Yet the Bible tells us not to hope in money. In fact, if identifies doing so as idolatry. No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. - Luke 16:13. So as my good friend Bryan Morton put it tonight, "We have this enemy, and he's going to try to pull us away from God, and to do that, he's going to bait the line with good things. Getting out of debt, that's a good thing, but our hope is only in that, then it's bad."
So my prayer is this: God, don't let me hope in a good job, good paycheck and a good future. Let me trust you in your infinate goodness, holiness and wisdom, that your plan is perfect. You alone are worthy of my trust.
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