I Lost It
I lost my job.
About 5 months ago.
I haven’t been in a place to write about it until recently. I was keeping much of it inside. I didn’t want to write about it because it all kinda hurt. Even though I know it was a business decision and that it wasn’t based on performance, it stings when someone tells you they don’t want you to be on the team anymore.
Losing a job stinks, but as I have come to realize it is just a part of life… and how we react to it dictates how our future will be! I’ve been down this road before – having been told that I was doing a remarkable job but “my position was deleted” due to business reasons. God saw me through it then and He is seeing me through it now. When I look back at the past several months while being unemployed I see that I have been given opportunities, experiences, and learnings I would not have had if I was still working for my former employer.
As a Real Christian Businessman I needed to write about this to encourage you, along with myself, that going through a time like this is not something to hide from or to be afraid of. It is actually something that ends up allowing us to be even closer to God if we will let it.
I know that I will be employed again. I’m not sure where or when, but I know it will be soon and it will be somewhere. And I know that God will provide for me during this time I am on the bench (which He actually has already been doing!). I also know that being without a full time job is only for a season – I won’t be unemployed forever!
I’m writing this today to encourage you, that if you are currently going through a job loss, or if your current job seems to be on shaky ground, God is faithful, and He will provide the answers and provisions that you are seeking and need. I don’t have all of my answers quite yet, but as I continue to pray and seek His guidance, I know they will be provided. I just have to be willing to listen for them!
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jer 29:11 (NIV)