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 God speaks - with perfect timing
by Mark Saxby, BBC Radio Leeds News Editor
I had a job interview last week ... outside the BBC. It was greeted with shock by my friends and the few colleagues I told. They couldn't believe I was ACTUALLY CONSIDERING leaving the BBC for an independent rival. But I just wanted to do God's will. I am on attachment and the job I was going for was the same role but a permanent position. Admittedly it was lower paid, further from home and it IS a big thing to leave the BBC, but I want to be where God wants to me to be and I didn't know where that was.
So, I prayed - no answer - put in my application form - still no answer - and had a call asking me to go for an interview - still no answer. But God HAD spoken: "Be still and know that I am God." The stress about making the right decision lessened considerably after hearing this. God would give me the answer in his own time.
The day of the interview came and by then I had decided that on a practical level it could be a great job to get and I wanted to be successful. So I had a look around the station and my interview went well. I drove back to work praying - still no answer - and walked back to the office. Then the answer hit me: I saw with renewed clarity how inspiring I find my boss … and I knew there and then I hadn't felt the same way about those who interviewed me.
For me it was a clear answer to the job question - I should stay at the BBC.
At home that night we had house group and by then the doubts had returned. Had I made the right decision? Was I being too hasty? Then one of the members of the group told me that afternoon they had asked God to tell them whether I should take the job. God told her: 'Mark already knows the answer'. The time: about 4.45pm. The time God had spoken to me: About 4.45pm. My reassurance I had made the right decision was complete.
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Mark Saxby, 20/09/2006 |
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| | | Paul Brock, Oxford (Guest) | 28/03/2010 23:43 | Wonder if you still remember who I am, Mark? I suspect you probably don't!
But having said that, it has been good to read the above. Especially to say that just because anyone prays but receives as you say "no answer", as if the Lord is silent, does not mean he isn't guiding. He is very much there. I know, because I have grown in my walk with the Lord this way too. I was promoted in my present job recently, by the way (with some sciatica to go with it too!), and that after lots of anguished prayer.
If you do wish to get in contact with me, my e-mail address is:
PAULBROCKOXFORD@hotmail.com - would I soon hear from you, o BBC man?
| | | | David Wallace | 28/03/2010 23:50 | Mark has moved (after further interviews), and may not be watching this forum but I've forwarded your message to him.
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