Daniel C Berman Communications

I recently had a misappropriation of my personal priorities blow up in my face. I deserved it.

I had always been taught that you place God first in your life, your spouse second, your family third, and your job fourth. That is a good pattern, but the challenge comes when it is time to choose. Out of what I thought was love, I had been attempting to do that and sacrificing everything or so I thought. The reality though was that I was beginning to sacrifice passions which God has legitimately given me, that was impacting my ability to lead our family and providing a vision for where we were headed in life.

Its never fun to discover that you have been sabotaging God’s plan for you, but we do it so often whether we are just coming to him or we have been walking together for decades and learn that our pride and sinful nature has gotten in the way just one more time. Now comes a time of confession, forgiveness and rebuilding.

I still believe that there was a reason for attending Bible College, not the least of which was meeting my beautiful bride and learning what God is up to around the world. But maybe just maybe God had something up his sleeve with those lunches I had with Professor Robert Chisholm and those political science -international relations and history courses which I enjoyed so immensely. God places people at all levels of societal strata and I pray that God’s light would shine through me wherever I serve.

Has God ever sent you a sign that you were heading down the wrong path, even though you thought you had everything in the right place in the right order?

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