Birth

Isaiah 66:9

“Do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?" says the Lord. "Do I close up the womb when I bring to delivery?" says your God.

June has come and once again, I have given a spiritual birth to something that I labored for through the winter and spring. I was praying on the long ride home from Minnesota on on New Year’s Day. I felt like God said to me, “By June, you’ll have a new job.”

This made me immensely glad. Yet, I didn’t get too excited because after all, there have been countless moments where I thought I heard the voice of God but was mistaken. So I held lightly to that word and hoped it was true. At the time, I was in a job that was sucking the lifeblood out of my every breathing moment. It was the most intense, most horrific work experience I had ever encountered. It was often a daily battle for me to understand why a loving, gracious God would put me in such an inferno. I guess Daniel and the boys thought the same thing when old Nebbie threw them in the furnace.

But they weren't there for long and neither was I.

On May 11th, I got an offer for the job of my dreams: a creative writer position with a cutting edge communications company in Colorado. The salary was a 40% increase from my current salary, and I would be working from home. Because the company puts a high value on creativity, they encourage key employees to live anywhere in the continental U.S. and simply communicate by phone and computer—both of which they would provide.

I was absolutely stunned. Speechless. For those of you who know me, running out of words is a rarity for me. The Lord my God had come through in the most unimaginably wonderful way…it was absolutely one of the most amazing opportunities that He has ever brought to me. Furthermore, I was later told that I was 1 of 80 candidates for the position. God reserved a place just for me.

I didn’t even know this kind of a job existed. When I was job searching, I was discouraged because I absolutely hated the pressure and work load of my present field and didn’t have experience in anything else. I was in a small, tight place and I couldn’t see a way out. I was desperate for God to help me break out of this place. And He did. On a whim one day, I applied on Monster.com for this position. The job description was vague and the company’s website was under construction. I brushed it off and didn’t give it another moment’s thought. Until one day a few weeks later, I was contacted for a phone interview. From there, things moved exceptionally quickly and I was offered the position immediately.

I purposely wrote the previous entry in April so that I could bring all of you with me on this journey. I brought you with me so that your faith could be strengthened. It’s not to show you how “great” I am, but how great HE is. Look and see what the Lord has done. What He has done for me, surely He will do for you.