Hi guys and welcome back to day four of gratitude week. In this post, I’ll be writing about a risk that I am grateful for taking. Normally, when I would think of the word risk, it would make me afraid. Like I stated in my previous post, my comfort zone was my safe place. However, that was until I started to grow in my relationship with God. As I previously shared, because of my growth in Christ, I have now switched my comfort zone from being my safe place to God’s will being my safe place. With that being said, let me tell you how I took the risk to quit my very first job in New York without another job lined up.

Ok, this is a season where I see so many people saying, “God told them to quit their job.” I just want to set the record straight by saying God never told me to quit my job but when I brought it before Him, He did promise to take care of me. So the basis of me even mulling over the idea to quit my job was found in the CEOs constantly discussing religion in a satirical way. I am sure that this broke so many HR violations, but due to HR being their best friend they were able to get away with such toxic work practices.

Allow me to give you an even clearer picture as to why I felt the need to quit my job. My bosses were atheist and even outside of work, they continued to question the God that I serve with argumentative questions. Now as it relates to the actual job, I did not agree with their business practices because they were basically instructing us to lie and cheat people out of their hard earned money for their benefit. After only a couple of months in training, I recognized that this was not the job that I wanted nor the people that I wanted to work for anymore. So, I prayed about it and had peace about my final decision to quit my job.

After submitting my two weeks notice via email, the CEO’s wanted me to meet with HR before finalizing my request. Within that meeting, I was asked if I had another job lined up to which I answered, “no.” What I forgot to mention was before making my decision to quit I was going on multiple interviews and kept coming up short. Jumping back to my meeting with HR, the unthinkable happened! They offered me a part time opportunity to still work for them and continue my job search until I land something! They also offered me an opportunity to continue working with them full time in a different department. However, my stance was the same as I did not agree with their business practices to commit to being a full time employee. So, I took them up on their offer and worked part time until I landed a job which was actually within my two weeks notice!

There’s so much more to this story but maybe I can share that for a part two. What I will say is God continues to keep His Word! I’ve never seen the righteous forsaken nor His seed begging for bread. Quitting a job with no other source of income or future job lined up is not wise. Like I said, I took a risk off the principle of my personal beliefs opposing that particular job’s toxic business practices. This was me standing for righteousness and God backing me up for my radical stance to remove myself from an environment that was no longer beneficial or fruitful for me.

I’m sure God used me for the small amount of time I was there due to them making accommodations for me when I turned in my letter of resignation. Nonetheless, I wanted to be sure to get those disclaimers out of the way because we shouldn’t make exceptions the standard of how we live our lives as Christians. Please don’t take my story as your sign to quit your job. Do all things with prayer and aligning it with the Word of God first and only.

Okay, I pray you were able to capture the takeaway that sometimes making a radical decision can open doors for you that you didn’t see coming! Standing for righteousness oftentimes means making a risky decision but God will always honor us in our choice to do what’s right and for that I am beyond grateful! Be blessed!

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