Well, I hope to be anyways haha.
I've been sharing to various friends about how God hasn't really told me anything about what I'm to do after I'm done university, except to start a family. They always laugh -____-. It'll generally include me discussing the desire to get a job right away, start paying off debt, and saving up.
When I was sharing this on Saturday though, the Holy Spirit reminded of Elimelech in Ruth chapter 1. I was obsessed with the book of Ruth at one point, probably cause Driscoll was pretty jokes as he was teaching it.
In the time of famine, Elimelech moved away from his people and the promise land to (speculatively?) find food elsewhere. Although this is may be a physically wise decision, we see that spiritually, it was disastrous. In relation to our times, it's like leaving your spiritual home to live in a spiritually corrupt community for a physically better life for you and your family. There's this danger of focusing on the physical needs and not on the more important spiritual needs.
When I was sharing on Saturday, I realized that my focus was entirely on the physical, and nothing on the spiritual. Yes, paying off debt and saving up for my future family is important. But what about my ability to raise children? How does my faith and character match up to those of a father's? Surely I can't, and won't claim that I have been trained enough by God to do so in a God-glorifying way. Yet, I realized that I had no plans on making sure I will be by the time family comes around. Epic fail.
