Wisdom On ... The Future
I'll be posting the winners of 10 Minute Poem Week later this week. Today, I have a Facebook question I thought I'd share along with my response. If you have any advice for Logan, please leave a comment.
hey mark im a freshman in high school and lately i have felt like god has really been trying to tell me he wants me to do his work for a living after high school and college but I'm not sure what he wants me to do but i know he wants me to help with his work in spreading his word. do you have any advise for me considering you probably went through the same thing at one point in your life?- Logan
Here is my response:
Hi Logan!
I went into college with the exact same feeling. I wasn't sure what God wanted me to do specifically, but I somehow felt ministry might be the path. The best advice I can pass on comes from Jesus in Matthew 6:
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
I have met many people around the country that are stuck, waiting for God to use them in the future when God has plans for them today. God gives us something to do today! There isn't ONLY something waiting in the future, we are to seek Him and the Kingdom now, today. And when you are obedient today it will lead to the place God wants you to be tomorrow. We don't know what will come tomorrow (or whether we will even be here).
When I look back on my life, I can trace my current place in ministry back to specific moments of obedience to live for God in the "now". I NEVER would have jumped on a path that led to doing conferences with teenagers but daily decisions to serve God in the "now" led me to the "now" I am in today. Make sense?
So I would encourage you to look around today and see how you can be an ambassador for God TODAY. Tomorrow will take care itself.
Mark
About Mark Matlock
Mark is founder of PlanetWisdom.com and the nationwide PlanetWisdom Conferences. For nearly two decades, he has ministered to youth pastors, students, and their parents. Focusing on transferring Biblical wisdom, Mark’s the author of the recent six book series Wisdom On…, What Does God Want From Me?, and Don’t Buy the Lie. In Fall 2008, Mark launched the nation-wide initiative Real World Parents aimed at reclaiming the Biblical role for families across the country. He resides in Dallas with his wife, Jade, and his two children.
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