Don Eddy
“Delight yourself also in the Lord, and do good; dwell in
the land, and He shall give you the desires of your
heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in
Him, and He shall bring it to pass” (Psalm
37:4-5)
We are privileged to hear some
wonderful accounts of how God works in the lives of
ordinary people like you and me. Recently, we heard
the story of Don Eddy, who told us about the
difficult time he had with his employment. Even
though he knew God would give him the desires of his
heart, it was literally decades before his “dream
job” came to him. He reached the point of wondering
whether he had heard God correctly, and then
suddenly, God reached into his life and changed it.
Here’s his story:
“There was a time
in my life where I became consumed with my work. I
would think about my work and what had to be done
almost all of the time. I was working twelve hours a
day, five days a week, and on the weekends if I
didn’t do some work I was thinking about what I
would do on Monday. My relationships with God, my
wife and children were suffering and I couldn’t see
it, until my wife said to me, “I want my old Donald
back.” Then I realized what was happening to me. If
you make time for the big things in your life the
small things will fit in. I turned my work load
around and made God my first priority and my family
my second. My work was now third.”
“A few years ago I
was offered a supervisory position for the company I
started my career with 25-years before. I was not
unhappy with my current job but prayed about the
decision and felt God telling me to make the move
back to the first company I worked for. For about a
year the job went smoothly and then it took a turn I
had not expected. The pressure became intense and my
work hours increased dramatically. I started to ask
God why He had brought me to this job. I did
continue to read the Bible, pray daily and still
lived in a relationship with God.”
“Over the next
2-1/2 years I kept on asking God for guidance about
my job but I was not receiving an answer. I simply
did not understand why my work-life took such a
wrong turn and was starting to question God as to
whether I had heard him correctly the first time.
The one answer I did receive was, “Son, you have
made the right decision.” I continued to try, but I
found myself getting angry with God for leading me
to a job I hated going to every day. At the end of
those two and one-half years, I had faith that God
was in control but still had not received the answer
to my question of: “Why did he lead me here?” I was
at the point I would yell to God for an answer to my
question and then finally the answer came. I was
offered and accepted a promotion to a job that I
considered to be my dream job 25 years before.”
-
Don Eddy.
Don also has been given a
wonderful ministry in his church – He had to wait on
the Lord for a long time, but he did wait and God
has given him “the
desires of (his) heart.”
Dear Readers: You may contact
Don through
Ron@FridayStudy.org.
