Get the message!
Today my pager stopped working. I tried paging A coworker from a phone with both his 3 digit or 10 digit pager number, it gave a busy signal. I checked my pager number too
and it also wasn't working. Then I asked my cube neighbor if she'd had any problems paging people. She said she'd gotten a page just a few minutes ago, and that she'd just paged one of the leads and they called her right back.
I started thinking maybe it was a sign that layoffs were about to start. (The day you are laid off your accounts are all frozen.) I was so happy for about an hour, and started planning how I was going to withdraw from Tarrant county college and call pastor back for references, and start going to Christ for the Nations full time.
However, I found out it was just that the pager system was only half broken. If you used the website to send a page, it went through. I realized how I'm letting my future be controlled by my surroundings. That's the first thing I have to overcome.
For the last 20 years I knew that sometime around this point in my life I'd quit and go full time for God. I started trying to prepare for it about 2 years ago, and started school last year (planning to go to baptist seminary eventually. But... Baptist seminary requires a 4 years degree first, then is 2-4 years long. I'm supposed to be in service in at most 2 years from now (the '20 years' plan I didn't write down the dates, but the general plan was 20 years to grow up, 20 years for Mike, 20 for God, and 20 for Grandkids.)
Anyway, the time it takes to go back to Baptist seminary for me.. I'd be an old man before I could start any ministry. Plus, My theology doesn't really fit under the 'Baptist' label anyway.
and it also wasn't working. Then I asked my cube neighbor if she'd had any problems paging people. She said she'd gotten a page just a few minutes ago, and that she'd just paged one of the leads and they called her right back.
I started thinking maybe it was a sign that layoffs were about to start. (The day you are laid off your accounts are all frozen.) I was so happy for about an hour, and started planning how I was going to withdraw from Tarrant county college and call pastor back for references, and start going to Christ for the Nations full time.
However, I found out it was just that the pager system was only half broken. If you used the website to send a page, it went through. I realized how I'm letting my future be controlled by my surroundings. That's the first thing I have to overcome.
For the last 20 years I knew that sometime around this point in my life I'd quit and go full time for God. I started trying to prepare for it about 2 years ago, and started school last year (planning to go to baptist seminary eventually. But... Baptist seminary requires a 4 years degree first, then is 2-4 years long. I'm supposed to be in service in at most 2 years from now (the '20 years' plan I didn't write down the dates, but the general plan was 20 years to grow up, 20 years for Mike, 20 for God, and 20 for Grandkids.)
Anyway, the time it takes to go back to Baptist seminary for me.. I'd be an old man before I could start any ministry. Plus, My theology doesn't really fit under the 'Baptist' label anyway.