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A friend of mine recently moved away to attend college. As the move date approached, she started questioning her decision and asking herself if she was doing the right thing. This questioning is normal and it took me back to that time in my life. 

I remember being stopped in the street one day by a stranger asking for the time. We started talking and he asked what I was doing. I was actually on my way home from church summer camp. In Australia, the school year finishes in December, not long before camp starts. I'd finished school and was now about to enter the work force.

The stranger told me the decisions and choices I made in that year would affect the path of my life. Looking back, he was right.  Maybe you’re thinking, hang on, don’t people have career changes? This is true, and I also fall into that category, but the work choices I made that year haven't drastically affected my life. 

What did affect my life was my choice regarding my spiritual walk. I left home and went to an isolated area with no church congregation within literally 2,000 kilometers. For a 17 year old, this choice was a ticket to destruction. It took over ten years for me to be pulled from the confusion I was in, and I was not a pretty sight. 

When we start laying out our career, it's normal to aim high, achieving our very best at university or trying to get that great job that will be financially rewarding, and therefore bring us a sense of fulfillment, satisfaction and pride. Even if we aren't overly ambitious, society tells us we should be. 

There is a well known biblical passage that is actually Christ Himself speaking and He addresses this mindset of striving for financial success and worrying about not having enough. He tells us that we should seek first the Kingdom of God and if we do, He promises to look after our physical needs (Matthew 6:33). Of course being ambitious is not wrong. The great king Solomon wrote, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might…” (Ecclesiastes 9:10, NKJV).

Wanting that great career or job is a good thing, provided it's secondary to wanting a great relationship with your Creator and seeking to serve Him in His Kingdom. This is actually where true fulfillment really lies.

My friend's decision to move was the right one. Why? Because when choosing a place to move to, her first rule was that it had to be near a church that taught the truth, from the bible. Her college days will come and go, jobs will come and go, but the important thing is that her journey to the Kingdom stays.