{"id":386,"date":"2008-08-11T22:19:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T03:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2011-03-31T15:42:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T19:42:13","slug":"watching-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/watching-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my drive home from work tonight,\u00a0I realized that I am watching my life with great interest. I feel like I am on some sort of great adventure, and I have no idea where things will end up.\u00a0Earlier today,\u00a0I saw a bumper sticker that read, &#8220;I have no idea where I am going.&#8221; I laughed, because that is how I feel.<\/p>\n<p>Some days I feel a bit like God has &#8220;benched me.&#8221; Other days, I feel like only now, am I finally &#8220;in the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you had told me one year ago that after graduation from seminary, I would be cleaning carpets for 70 hours per week, I would have said you were crazy. If I had made a numbered list of all the possible careers I wanted to do, carpet cleaning would have been dead last. And the crazy thing is that I kind of enjoy it! But that is not the only thing that intrigues me about where God is taking me. Whereas I used to read 3-4 books per week, I am now lucky to read 3-4 pages per week. Whereas I used to spend hours every day on in-depth research and study of Scripture, I now barely get time to simply read it. I used to preach three times per week. So far, I haven&#8217;t preached in over two months.<\/p>\n<p>But guess what? I now personally talk about Jesus with way more people per week than I did <em>per year<\/em> when I was doing all that reading and studying and preaching (which doesn&#8217;t really count).<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m watching my life. I don&#8217;t have a 10-step plan of how to get where I want to see myself go. I&#8217;m just trying to listen to God and follow His leading. And right now, He wants me to clean carpets. I&#8217;m not fully sure why. 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