Jim Graff, senior pastor of Faith Family Church in Victoria, Texas, recently wrote in the Victoria Advocate about how God showed him the appropriate pastoral job:
But then I began to think, 'You know, I really should pray about it before I just go and take a church.'
So I prayed, and as I did God spoke so clearly to me from Scripture in this verse: 'It is not good to have zeal without knowledge, nor to be hasty and miss the way' (Proverbs 19:2).
Long story short, we turned down the offer in Philadelphia. And the opportunity opened up to become pastor of a church of what was then 80 loving families in what I consider the greatest place, with the greatest people any pastor could ever serve: Victoria.
The challenge is following God's purpose for our life. When we look at what he calls us to do, it might not make sense. But he's omniscient and we're not, right?
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I think it's a wonderful thing that God is leading you to do. It's one of the fastest growing areas of counseling (along with pre-marriage counseling, for all the ACODs with marriage fears). God's blessing on you and your work--Jen Abbas de Jong, author of "Generation Ex: Adult Children of Divorce and the Healing of Our Pain."
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