New circumstances have made me ponder about things in my life. In particular, the new job I have been working at, being married, soon having a little one. Many portentous things, really. It has made me think of the Jaredites in the wilderness. First of all, they were promised a land and the Lord wanted them to have it: "And the Lord would not suffer that they should stop beyond the sea in the wilderness, but he would that they should come forth even unto the land of promise, which was choice above all other lands, which the Lord God had preserved for a righteous people" (Ether 2:7). He wanted them to go there to receive the blessings He had in store for them. But they stopped and didn't go all the way. They rested in a good land, but they hadn't yet gained the greatest blessings.
So there they were for four years, until the Lord chastened the brother of Jared because He hadn't been praying. Life got easy there, and they didn't continue to seek out their potential blessings. They repented, and they made it! They made it to the promised land and received all of the promised blessings of the Lord. (Ether 2:13-15)
This made me think about how I felt inspired to stop working at my other job for a time, and how this really pushed me to find a new job. I was hesitant, but felt it was right. I gave up a comfortable position, and I relied on God to lead me to something new, to something better. Eventually, I wound up at this job again, but at a new position that my managers would've never considered if I had still been working there. Nor would I have gained this new job that I've been working at. It is so wonderful to see how trusting the Lord leads us to gain our own personal promised land: we get to enjoy those greater blessings when we don't give up and keep going with faith in the Lord, even when the step of faith into the darkness can be quite frightening and even overwhelming.
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