Follow Your Heart While Choosing University Courses- Benjamin Zulu

A lot of young people are trying to choose university courses and career paths and it can be intensely confusing. You know the stakes are high and what you choose you’ll be stuck with it for a long time, but you don’t know the rules for making sure you get it right. The people around you may be giving contradictory advises or they could be disturbingly oblivious of the critical junction you’re at. Others may be imposing their agendas on you, totally ignorant of your unique giftings and passions.

But you know what? You’re the author of all this confusion because you don’t understand your source and so you’re seeking directions from people who have no clue about where you’re coming from or where you’re heading. Imagine if you started going around asking random people to sponsor your education or to give you a home. They’d all be asking the same questions: who are you? And where is your parent?’ Irrespective of how many people you ask, it would be frustrating and futile because you’re asking the wrong people. You’d finally have to do the right thing: go home and ask those things from the right source: your parents.

Similarly your originator on earth is God and even if your family is estranged from him or embroiled in conflicts or careers of their own, like the boy Samuel you must seek your true roots. Samuel’s mother was locked in a strife with her cowife but the boy sought God for himself. ‘God revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh through his word.’ (1 Samuel 3:21)

Granted, his mother’s prayers helped in shaping his life, but not all parents are so attentive and it doesn’t limit God. David and Daniel didn’t have the support of any family member but they still scaled the heights of their careers.

In summary, stop being casual with the only person who sent you here. Seek his guidance in earnest and avoid time consuming meanders you’ll otherwise find yourself in if you only listen to people. If you tune into his guidance, the people and events around this time of your life will suddenly become instruments for his guidance. Saul’s dad lost his donkeys and he was sent to look for them, but the whole trip had been planned to make Saul meet the prophet and get appointed as king. When you involve God, your search for careers or donkeys suddenly become things he uses to guide you.