Choices

Ever wondered the amount of choices you go through each day? What time to wake up, which side of my teeth do I brush first, to gurgle 1 times, 2 times, how many times? The amount of choices we have to make each day to sustain our lives will fill up a few blogs! But these aren't the choices that we will remember when we are 30 days later or 30 years older. There are some choices in life we make that goes right down the memory lane. Which secondary school to choose, which life partners to choose and which jobs to take up. And how many of these choices are 'correct', how do we even know if they are correct?

I was going through the same phase of life as my wife (refer to earlier blog). Yes, today is my first day of my new appointment in the ministry and it is equivalent to a new job. 3 months ago, I was put through the process of deciding my future for the next 2 years. The first option presented to me was the one I wanted. The job scope was exciting, the recognition was good and it sure will do good for my CV in the future. In short, the dream job. I met the boss, new colleagues, was briefed on the job and all the introductory stuff. I was told that what was left was administrative tie-up. Hence, I waited for the day for me leave my current appointment for 'greener pasture.'

As much as I wanted it to happen, it didn't. The big boss didn't want me, details of which I do not need to discuss here. But I felt saddened, disappointed, especially when the next job that was offered up to me, didn't come with the hype that I saw in the previous one. It felt dull and 'administrative'. At first, I was reluctant to accept the job, but after much soul-searching, I realised this: It is what you make out of a job and not what the job makes out of you. I felt better. And today, I go on the job eager to learn and to prove myself all over again, looking forward to the changes I am entitled to make in this new portfolio. How did I come up to this decision? Borrowing something which I first heard from Yufei, WWJD (What would Jesus do). At this point of my life, I have already learnt a fact: God plans for all of us, and all we have to do is to believe in him.

Just 6 months ago, another disappointment intersected my life. I was nominated for a French course, besides the exposure and allowances, it would have been a great experience. But again it did not turn up as it should have. However, a short while later, I realised how lucky I was not to have gone to France for the course. The amount of preparation work me and CW had to do prior to our wedding was just neverending, and I dare say that if I had gone to France on that course, our wedding might not have happened at all!

So what I am trying to say here is this. We, humans; Christians can only make our choices on what we can SEE. But can our eyes tell us everything? And when we do not get what we had wanted for ourselves, is nothing ever going to make up for it? Is what we want for ourselves really what God has planned for us? Always remember this: God HAS a plan for us, we have to believe and let him do his work on you! I will go on with my work from now on with excitement and to honour God in anyway possible.