Is God Calling His Women Out Of The World?

 Is God Calling His Women Out Of The World?

In the past 6 months I have gone through a major dynamic shift in my life. For as long as I can remember, I've put my God-given identity on the back burner and forced a new identity influenced by the world. Every step I've taken in the last 20 years has been to build a career to make as much money as I can and gain high standing in the workforce. I've pushed myself to earn certifications and I've constantly pursued continued education in areas that I wasn't really interested in but knew it would gain me a nice paycheck. But I have been unhappy. I've been lost. The better I was doing in my career, the more hopeless I became. Eventually, I lost my true identity in the rat race. 

My last job was horrible and after losing it, I tore myself apart trying to figure out what my next step was. Should I find another full time corporate job doing what I really didn't like? Or did God have something else for me? But if the latter, how can I let go of all my hard work and effort to get where I was? I had worked too hard to let all those years of work go.

I recently started getting to know several other women, all from completely different walks of life, and I was very surprised to learn that we all had one thing in common. We are lost in transition. We all just came out of careers that were successful but changed our identities into something we didn't recognize anymore. We made decisions based on what the world told us we needed to do to be successful and whole. We killed ourselves in the office and then had nothing left to give outside of that. Our identities had become completely attached to our careers. 

And then, transition. 

Whether it was by our choice or not, we found ourselves in an area we've not been in before.  We recognized that our identity was tied up and even recreated by our careers, and now that they were gone, we don't know who we are anymore, or what we're supposed to do. 

In this period, we all have been seeking God and His direction but during this seeking, we found that He's up to something else. He hasn't really answered our requests for new jobs. Instead, He's begun pulling us closer to Him, and as a result, showing us how distorted our true identities have become.   How the world has lied to us about our value and success being tied to a career that is killing us. He's been showing us our pride in striving for careers, and money, and ranking. He's been pulling us out of the chaos of the 9-5, and back in to the prayer closet. 

During these conversations and revelations with these other women and in my own journey, I realize that God is calling His women out of the world and back into the quiet place where He wants to meet us and reveal Himself to us so that we can learn and remember who He made us to be. 

I believe that women are the spiritual backbone of the homes and churches and our capacity for intercession and spiritual warfare is being sorely missed in the Christian community because the enemy has convinced us that our worth is tied to how busy we are and how much money we make. God is starting to break down those lies and He's calling us out of the busyness and into the quiet where He can replenish us and give us true rest. 

The fear of the missing paycheck or the throwing away of years of hard work is slowly being replaced by the joy of spending time with God-real, quality time with God and the building of our faith that He alone is our provider. He is showing us time and time again that He will sustain us and He is working behind the scenes to grow us and guide us and restore us. 

The true treasures in this world are not building our own kingdoms, but by showing the love and light of Christ and expanding God's kingdom. This is where we re-discover the joy of His salvation. This is where we re-discover what really matters in this life. 

This is where we allow God to show us our true identity and purpose.  

This is where we find the only satisfaction for our souls.