This week has been all over the place and not quite normal. We didn’t have class Tuesday, instead we all took a test/quiz thing online that factored in our ACT scores, grades, favorite classes, hobbies, and what not to see what majors best fit us. The site we used, I already had an account on and I had already taken the quiz my sophomore year but so much has changed since then. When I took it that time, my top three were Fashion design, Theatre, and Art… yeah so not me anymore. Back then I was super girly and wanted to go to school in New York. But nowadays, I’m not so girly, want to go to school in the south, and have no idea what I want to major in. When I retook the quiz, my tope five results were psychology, logistics, social work, public communication, and speech communication. Whoa! So different from my last results and kind of not what I was expecting. I was surprised and a little disappointed because we all went around and talked about what we all got and everyone else’s results made perfect sense and fit them so well and I felt as if mine were so ambiguous and could be anybody.
Then today, Shay Robbins came and spoke to us on spiritual gifts, what they are, how they work, and how they possibly play into majors and career choices. Earlier in the year we took a strengths finder test and my top 5 results were futuristic, developer, empathy, input, and strategic. Okay, so I guess I can see where being a psychologist or counselor would make sense with those strengths. Later on we took a spiritual gifts test and my top three results were wisdom, administration, and leadership.
So after answering a lot of repetitive questions and getting a lot of results, I started to see a sort of pattern. Shay told us today though to not depend on these online tests because so far he hasn’t been able to find scripture to back that up. In scripture, it says that people would lay hands on and pray for one another to reveal each other’s spiritual gifts. This was shown in the relationship of Timothy and Paul where Paul prays for Timothy, but it’s not like he prayed for him when they first met. They developed a relationship and there was a massive amount of investment. So, this is pretty much saying that someone really has to know you, your personality, and understand your passions. So I turned to my closest friends here, and told them my results and they were said “YES! That’s all totally you and makes perfect sense. You love hearing people’s stories, understanding them, and helping them through hard times.” Which I didn’t really realize until they said it, but I do.
So all this to say that the future is fast approaching and some decisions are going to have to be made soon that are very important and carry massive weight on the rest of my life. Even though it’s all confusing and ridiculously overwhelming at times, I know that God will reveal his perfect plan to me at the perfect time and that He will provide. He doesn’t want to keep me in the dark, He wants me to know my spiritual gifts, wants me to know my calling, because He wants me to be set free into his kingdom in order to make the biggest impact. It’s scary to have to make these decisions that are going to affect the rest of my life, but I’m so lucky to have some amazingly encouragingly and honest people in my life to walk alongside me to help me make them.
Then today, Shay Robbins came and spoke to us on spiritual gifts, what they are, how they work, and how they possibly play into majors and career choices. Earlier in the year we took a strengths finder test and my top 5 results were futuristic, developer, empathy, input, and strategic. Okay, so I guess I can see where being a psychologist or counselor would make sense with those strengths. Later on we took a spiritual gifts test and my top three results were wisdom, administration, and leadership.
So after answering a lot of repetitive questions and getting a lot of results, I started to see a sort of pattern. Shay told us today though to not depend on these online tests because so far he hasn’t been able to find scripture to back that up. In scripture, it says that people would lay hands on and pray for one another to reveal each other’s spiritual gifts. This was shown in the relationship of Timothy and Paul where Paul prays for Timothy, but it’s not like he prayed for him when they first met. They developed a relationship and there was a massive amount of investment. So, this is pretty much saying that someone really has to know you, your personality, and understand your passions. So I turned to my closest friends here, and told them my results and they were said “YES! That’s all totally you and makes perfect sense. You love hearing people’s stories, understanding them, and helping them through hard times.” Which I didn’t really realize until they said it, but I do.
So all this to say that the future is fast approaching and some decisions are going to have to be made soon that are very important and carry massive weight on the rest of my life. Even though it’s all confusing and ridiculously overwhelming at times, I know that God will reveal his perfect plan to me at the perfect time and that He will provide. He doesn’t want to keep me in the dark, He wants me to know my spiritual gifts, wants me to know my calling, because He wants me to be set free into his kingdom in order to make the biggest impact. It’s scary to have to make these decisions that are going to affect the rest of my life, but I’m so lucky to have some amazingly encouragingly and honest people in my life to walk alongside me to help me make them.