It is possible that we can be right where God wants us to be but not doing what God desires us to do. God may have led you to a certain employer with a purpose. Desiring that you are the Godly influence in the workplace. Changing the environment and making disciples. If you followed the Lord’s leading to the job but stopped there then you may be where God wants you. But you are definitely not doing what God wants you to do.
It is like you are called to be in the missionary field. You move all the way to the country of your calling but never preaching. You are where God wants you but by not preaching you aren’t fulfilling the reason He called you there in the first place. Honestly making it pointless that you even found the right place because God only wanted you there to make an impact.
It is good to be concerned about where God wants you and where He is taking you in life. But we mustn’t become so concerned with the where that we miss the what. What God desires us to do is just as important as where He wants you to be.
God may never want you to leave the church you are at. But that doesn’t mean He only ever wants you to sit on the pew or even fulfill the same role for a lifetime. God has placed you wherever you are so you can do something.
The same can also apply to all the gifts God gives us. I have said it many times but God bless us so we can be a blessing to others. There are many people who have God given abilities to make great incomes. They do good in pursuing that and acquiring what God has enabled them too. But God has a purpose and a reason for that blessing. If that purpose is never sought for or put into action then gaining what God wanted them too is pointless.
Seek God will but be sure you do it in everything. Don’t only seek what God wants for you but what He wants you to do with it. You are meant to be a blessing with where you are and what you have. I know this flies in the face of much of modern Christianity but God’s biggest concern isn’t your level of enjoyment in this life. If that was the case the Apostles would have lived a much easier and pain free life. But God’s greatest desire is to see the world saved. A task that He has called each and every believer to help complete. That is why He leads us where to go and gives us the ability to do certain things well. All so we can best complete the great commission and do our best to see as many souls saved as possible.
1 Timothy 2:4 (ESV)
4 who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Matthew 28:19–20 (ESV)
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
2 Peter 3:9 (ESV)
9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Be sure that you are not only where God wants you to be but that you are doing what He wants you to do. Make sure you have only gained what God has given but that you also use it in the way He desires. Take time to really pray over this. Don’t make it to heaven only to find out there was so much you could have done. So many souls that you could have been instrumental in saving. But you became content at simply being in the place God wanted you. Never making the difference that he empowered you to make.
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