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Writer's pictureMatthias Ong

Thresholds of Obedience

I quit my job yesterday.


And, many things told me not to.

A good paycheck.

A brand name.

Nice colleagues.


Yet there are other reasons which told me to.


Many folks would tell me

"Don't be rash. Be calm.

Hang in there."

And others

"I understand.

Fully support.

It was a matter of time"


And in my life instances, it's the same isn't it?


Two voices telling you exactly opposite things.

Both from credible voices.


And sometimes, many things in life are a gamble.

51:49, 60:40

But we can never be sure.

Christianity puts it as a leap of faith

Analysts, a calculated risk

To Doctors, playing with your life


Sometimes when God wanted his people to go

Jonah went in the other direction

Peter denied him

When he wanted them to stay obedient

They didn't


People judge us all the time for the things we do

And to half of them, we should have always done it the other way

And when outcomes are right, then it self justifies the decision


That's the world we live in.


For me I know why I made this decision

I know.

I believe I was obedient

But I also have my thresholds

I didn't want to give up many things


But I already realised being brought over the threshold isn't always a bad thing

Sometimes like with Jonah, there's no way of escaping that big whale of fate.


And cry as we might. Suffer. Scold each other for bad outcomes. Blame each other.

The truth is that


Those are the choices we make

Whether or not we were pushed or we pushed ourselves into it

Only God knows.



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