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Today – I think that the verse speaks enough of itself:

1 Corinthians 7:17, “Nevertheless, each one should retain the place in life that the Lord assigned to him and to which God has called him.  This is the rule I lay down to all the churches.” 

I don’t think that it is just to the churches.  I think it is to everyone – everywhere… 

The Message Bible says it this way “And don’t be wishing you were someplace else or with someone else.  Where you are right now is God’s place for you.  Live and obey and love and believe right there.”

There isn’t much more to say about this, other than we have to accept where we are, and know that is where God wants us right now.  We may have felt called elsewhere in the past, and questioning God’s purpose for us now, but if we are following Him, we are where He wants us to be. 

I just have to keep reminding myself of that. 

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