that’s how I roll
Day 1 of the new job.
Hasn’t really started yet, but I’ve packed up my desk here in Pitt St, and I’m about to head off to the George St building to find me a new home. Had an interesting chat with one of the directors in a part of Telstra who wasn’t happy I was leaving. He was more unhappy with someone leaving the data role so quickly and wondering about the management of it. So I was pretty upfront with him that I felt like my role was everyone’s side project and that I had to lead it myself. And that was something I really wasn’t wanting to do right now.
Had a really good day yesterday. Mum and Dad had a little celebration afternoon for their 25th wedding anniversary, so I was round there helping out with food and drinks and such, and seeing people that I haven’t seen in 15 years, and people that I’ve never seen me before (but who remember me when I was 2). It was a really nice afternoon :)
I love these words. Every time I hear them they just feel so powerful and confident and sure… they end up resounding in me for the whole week afterwards.
No guilt in life, no fear in death:
This is the power of Christ in me.
No power of hell, no scheme of man,
Can ever pluck me from His hand!
‘Till He returns or calls me home,
Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand.
[In Christ Alone - Keith Getty & Stuart Townend]
It’s a good thing that the words will carry with me through the week: I need to remember them. I haven’t been overly close with God of late… and that is my own doing (of course). But I feel like I’m on the way back. I was challenged a couple of weeks ago that if you ignore sin in your life, then you’re just going to make it harder on yourself to have a close and quality relationship with God. And when I heard this, I just sat there in awe - cos it was so true of me. I wasn’t enjoying spending time with God, and I knew I wasn’t giving my absolute all to Him. So those two suddenly clicked in my head, and I knew what I had to do.
So I do feel like I’m on the way back… and it’s a good road to be on. I have this desire, a very strong desire, to be closer to God. And I’m doing all I can to get closer to God.
It’s a good road to be on.
