At least it’s Friday

Friday is always a beautiful day.

No matter how bad of a work week it has been, it's Friday, it's almost over.

Friday is a sign of things are going to be in the past.

The bad times might be over for there are good things in the weekend.

The same time last year, I was looking forward to the weekend so much.

Most weeks I would go into work and get beat down.

I would feel like I was in a no win situation.

No matter what I did, it was wrong.

I felt so insecure.

Whatever vision I had, it was trampled.

When I was looking for an opportunity to get out of that situation (Looking forward to the weekend with your job only takes you so far) a colleague told me I have to watch out because to some people I would be damaged goods.

I just had the worst work year of my life and chances are it won't get much better.

I remember being alone in the Church a couple of times in tears calling out to go for a sign that things were going to improve or there was going to be a light at the end of the tunnel (Hopefully it won't be a train).

We look for signs when we are going through bad times, we don't always get the answer we are looking for.

Pharisees and Sadducees wanted a sign from Jesus, but that sign won't happen.

Jesus talks about how it's easy to predict what's going on in the sky by looking at it then finishes with this in Matthew 16:4…

"A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah. Jesus then left them and went away."

If you don't know who Jonah is….

He was given a task from God, rather than excepting it, he ran from it and ended up in the belly of a huge fish for three days until he repented and went back and did what God told him to do.

When he went to the city God sent him too, everyone repented.

The religious leaders wanted a sign from Jesus (like he didn't give them enough signs before), but Jesus wouldn't give it to them.

When we gave a sign to the people in Jonah's time they all repented but it didn't stick and eventually went back to their old ways.

Signs are difficult, most likely none of us will experience that huge sign we are expecting in our lives.

We don't have that sign where light bulb turns on above our head.

We go through rough times and look for a sign that things are going to improve.

I went through six months of looking for a sign from God that things were going to improve in my situation.

God comes through for us, he will lead us where he wants us to go, sometimes it's not the way we would expect

I met with a couple of my mentors throughout this time.

One of them gave me this to do…

That we both wanted things to improve at this Church, but at this point didn't think things would happen.

He gave me this prayer (I don't remember it word for word)….

God, I believe you have a greater place in store for me. That I have went through a rough time and look for a place to serve that will be to the best of my abilities. Open the door to that place.

Before we prayed this prayer, he told Hailee and myself we could be praying this prayer for three months or for three years, it's on God's timing not ours.

Within a half an hour I received an email from Dr. Kuest with the job description for Union Christian Church with the title Interested?

Kuest told me he read the job description and I was the only person he thought of sending it too.

I still emailed my other mentor and said, "I don't think God would move me this quick."

I got a rightfully email back saying, "Why would you decide God's timing, just poke at it, see if it might be a good fit."

Needless to say I did.

God doesn't always move that fast as that afternoon.

God's plans and signs are bigger then we can imagine.

Yet we don't always see that sign and it gets frustrating.

There is a reason it's called faith.

I hope you have a great Friday and that you are happy wherever you are at in life.

If you are not happy, is there something you need to change?

Have a great weekend.