A number of years ago I got my bachelor’s degree in music education and then went on to get my masters degree in tuba performance. It was then time to get a job. I wanted to be a high school band director. Since I had a masters degree I thought that I should be able to choose where I wanted to teach. After years of looking for a position I finally said, “Lord, wherever you want me I’ll go.”
Everybody has these kinds of decisions to make all the time. We need to learn to be led by God in these situations. There is no place in the Bible that tells us, “Dean will teach music in Podunk, Tennessee.”
We do find a number of things that the Bible tells us to do. Jesus said the following:
“And He said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'” (Matthew 22:37-39 NASB95)
These were the greatest two commandments that we are to follow. If we would follow them completely then we would be willing to follow the last command Jesus gave us:
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit…” (Matthew 28:19 NASB95)
We need to follow the commands that are given to us that are in the Bible. We need to know the leading of the Holy Spirit in the things that the Bible do not specifically mention. So if we follow the leading of the Holy Spirit we will know what to do.
By Dean W. Masters
Owner of the Master’s List.