What does the future hold?

It’s been a long time since I have written. Funny, I think that is how I started my last post.

I am finishing my MBA now. I start my last 8-week class Monday. This is the capstone course in this program, so I anticipate being overwhelmed. My thoughts though ironically are not on the course work ahead of me, but rather on the next academic endeavor I have decided to take. The Doctor of Education degree.

I started looking at what kind of work I can do with this education. As it turns out, I can do anything I want to in higher education or corporate America. I have battled though today with thoughts about self-advancement. my selfishness and ego had to be slapped back into check. I found myself reading discussion posts on a popular church sound oriented discussion board. I often doubt my knowledge level and adequacy to perform the tasks God puts before me. But as I read these posts and the response to them by "professionals", I was overwhelmed not by the feeling that I knew more then them, but that why wasn’t I being put in a position where my knowledge level was recognized. Instantly, God reminded me that if we seek man's approval we will find it, but what matters is serving God and His approval of our actions.

I pray that as I increase my knowledge that God grants me the wisdom to know how to use it and the humility to remain effective.