Accept What God Wants For Your Life

And there are other Christians who abandon themselves to God. They give up their personal ambitions. They say, “God, make me what you want.”

I don’t want to boast, but in a certain sense, when I married my first wife and became father to those eight girls, I renounced a very promising university career. The leader of my college told me that within a few years, I’d get such and such positions. And really, I was set for success. If you had become a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, at the age of twenty-four, you had it made. Some of my friends thought I was just throwing my life away.

Well, if I’d gone back to Cambridge and got the position, I would have had to retire at age sixty-five. Here I am, age seventy, nearly seventy-four. I’m not even thinking of retiring. I’m traveling the world. I’m doing the thing that I enjoy most. I am seeing lives continually changed. Why should I have not give that up for the sake of some little career at a university?