How Do I Follow God’s Will in the Face of Two Good Options?

Ask Pastor John

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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God may not reveal every detail we want to know about our future, but he does promise to walk with us and direct our steps.

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0:00.0	Today is October 14th on the podcast and the date marks the 40th anniversary of Pastor John's
0:10.5	late night wrestling over a huge decision.
0:14.2	Should he leave seminary as a professor in order to take up a full-time pastorate in a local
0:19.2	church?
0:20.9	Pastor John, take us back to that season of life and I think it's related.
0:26.9	We have a question here from a listener named Vanessa who asks, hello, Pastor John, I hope
0:30.0	you are well.
0:31.0	I like so many others are thankful for your ministry.
0:33.4	My question for you is this, does God have a specific plan for my life or do I have
0:38.6	freedom to choose what I want to do and God will work in that?
0:43.0	Two good career options are in front of me, neither would be better, sinful.
0:46.3	When faced with two good options, how have you made decisions and of course in this context
0:50.9	take us back to that anniversary?
0:52.9	Tony, this was really moving for me, for you to force me to think about this.
0:59.8	I didn't know till you pointed it out that we were coming up on the 40th anniversary of
1:06.8	that night in October 1979 when God did such an amazing work in my life.
1:14.1	This is amazing.
1:17.4	What a night it was.
1:19.3	I have in front of me here on my desk, I'm going to rattle it so you can hear it, I hear
1:23.5	the paper.
1:25.5	I have in front of me the actual handwritten blue book pages in volume 25 of my thought
1:34.4	notebook which I began to keep in 1966.
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