Discerning God’s will

It seems my entire life things have just happened to me for the better. I loved the college I attended and it turned out to be the perfect environment for me, but when I look back on it I really didn’t put much thought into it. I just kind of chose it and didn’t think twice about it.

Or when I got my first job after graduating, it actually started 1 year prior when I serendipitously met my future employer at a training event.

There are a lot of other examples, but these are just two big ones that are more recent. Anyway, it seems like all of these good things keep happening to me and not because of my own doing.

Well now I have a new job offer at my current place of employment that is an upgrade from my current position. I need this new job in order to one day attended graduate school, and so it seems like I should of course take it. I mean, everything else positive in my life that has propelled me forward have just sort of fallen into my lap.

However I also have a separate job offer in a different state, that will also help me get to graduate school, but it will take a few extra months in the long run. Which isn’t really a big deal for me, and I also feel that this job’s location will be better for me (it would be a fresh start/an adventure, I’d be around more like minded people, I plan to move here anyway when I’m older so it’s sort of like why not get a head start?...etc.).

So should I just keep following the path of least resistance? Take the bird in hand at my current place of employment? Or do I go out on a limb and move to a different state and hope for the best?

What is God’s will? Have these good things been happening to me because God is steering me through life? Would this be rejecting his plan if I were to take this other job?

One thing I tried to do is listen to my conscience. Anytime I have to make a big decision, I can just feel that one way is right and one way is wrong. There’s just that thought in the back of your head or that feeling in your gut on what you should do. I don’t have that this time though, in fact if anything I feel more drawn to the more “risky”/“unknown” out of state job offer.

One of my worries is that I’ve been distant from God lately, and I worry that perhaps he is letting me wander on my own for a bit. Letting me go out and make my decisions on my own (which will turn out poorly), in order to remind me that I need him. I don’t know, I guess I’m just wondering how I can discern what is God’s will so I know what I should do.

Thanks.

If God isn't speaking clearly about a particular choice, then consider that he's big enough and his will is big enough that both options can be in his will. In that case, either choice is right and the only question you need to be asking yourself is... is it worth delaying grad school a few months to take the job in the place where you think you want to live in the future? Personally I've learned that I have a hard time establishing myself in a new location and so the transition of moving ends up being very stressful and lonely for me so I'll throw that out as a consideration as well. But the only person who can tell you what God's will is, is God himself, and like I said sometimes he doesn't really care which choice you make because he can incorporate either into what he's doing in and through your life.

I agree with Cinder. Gods will cant be lost. It is hard to get use to a new place unless you have family or friends there. Maybe your just good at making connections. I'm not lol.