> > But living for God's will is entirely different from that. There are things that I would *much* rather do than teach high school students, but it's clearly not God's will that I do them.
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> What? I'm trying to work through all the negatives in that sentence, and I think TOM is saying that God wants TOM to teach high school students, even though TOM doesn't want to. But I'm not sure. TOM, could you clarify?
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> And if I'm right, how do you know God's will to the point where you can say it's clear what he wants you to do?
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> Stephen

Well, I am muchly convicted of the fact that teaching high school is what I'm here for. No, I cannot clearly explain how I came to be so sure of this.

That is not to say I do not *want* to teach high school. What I am saying is that left totally to *my* will, there are other things I would most likely end up doing. But what with the whole man-being-a-fallen-creature thing, my will is not necessarily what is right or what is best.

The Other Matthew