The first step

This should be the first step.

I've been thinking about my future over the last few weeks, since I did my first main service preach at church. Someone mentioned lay readership again. That's a big decision, which could commit me to this church, this area for the next 3 and half years whilst training. Is that what I want, either to become a lay reader or to remain in this place?

My job will be changing over the next few months. Again, I may need to make a decision - do I live with the changes, make the best of them, or do I start to look for something else, maybe even out of London? In reality, at some point in the next year or so I will need to move on or up, and there's not much choice where I am. There are a couple of jobs up for grabs, but I'm not sure if they're what I want. Or if I'm what they want for those jobs.

The common theme is, though, I need to decide. God gives us choices. We can choose what we do. Sure, we can choose to listen to Him, to be guided by Him, ultimately it's our choice whether to follow Him or not.

"The reason you don't have what you want is...you don't ask God." James 4:2

And sometimes we have to ask for what we want.

Thanks to ASBO Jesus for the 'toon.