This afternoon at work, I was listening to "The Dave Ramsey Show" podcast and was momentarily stunned by a story that I heard unfolding as a listener called in and asked for Ramsey's advice on a situation that she was in.* This caller's situation is that she was working a $85,000-year-job in "Corporate-America" where she was the sole bread winner for a family of four (due to her husband being disabled.) They decided to quit her job so that she could pursue God's calling in her life. She told Ramsey that she didn't want to be running the rat race that so many people seem to run. The fall out of all of this is that her family is now on food stamps. Dave's eventual response was perfect: "24 hour a day meditation is not feeding your family." I think his answer is the key to this situation, and to an even greater narrative that has swept the church today. It has been a common trope in the church to find "the Lord's calling i...
"By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers." - 1 John 3:16