On the sermon today, Josh once more challenged us not to be career minded, but heavenly or God minded. It was a very good and challenging sermon from Proverbs 8.
I guess I was/am person who struggle with this issue a lot, people think career-ism is an easy struggle thus they put other struggles like singleness or homesexuality as the “real” struggles. Except for Lina, I don’t think people know that I used to have problem with contentment, last year, I am pretty sure I was qualified to be categorised in having mild depression. I came to a conclusion today, that perhaps uni IS evil. Perhaps christians shouldn’t go to uni at all, why you might ask..
Uni gives you this pride, it gives you status that you are better/more able than most people, and once you graduated you will find it very hard to be content with jobs that don’t pay as much as they should or jobs that aren’t in line with what you have studied. If you are a graduate you have the burden to be excellent in your career, if you studied at a well known uni, the burden is even more. Personally, I think it would be better for me if I didn’t do uni, then I wouldn’t have to struggle with contenment, if I knew God the way I know Him now back then, I would probably just go to a theological college or maybe even if I do go to uni, I wouldn’t put too much effort in it.. An honours degree, that doesn’t give me satisfactions in life.. what is it good for, absolutely nothing.
Or maybe if I wasn’t born as a chinese (or indo chinese), and hang around with the chinese, maybe I won’t be pressurized too much. If I was born in an aussie anglo family, I think I can be more freely enjoy this life.
Maybe Matthias ministry got it wront, if you trying to catch people in Uni to know God, it’s probably too late, put more effort in high school ministry I say and discourage people from going to uni 🙂