Adjusting to a New Assignment - KEEP MOVING FORWARD!

You can make a success of your new assignment.  Do not consider a change to be a failure or a step backward.  Look for Jehovah's hand in your life and keep preaching. Imitate the faithful Christians of the first century. Wherever they were, they "went through the land declaring the good news of the word."  (Acts 8:1, 4)  Your efforts to keep on preaching may yield good results.  For example, pioneers who were expelled from one country moved to a neighboring land where there also was a great need in their language.  Within months, new rapidly growing groups were formed. 

"The joy of Jehovah is your strength."  (Nehemiah 8:10)  We must find our joy primarily in Jehovah and not in our assignment, no matter how much we treasure it.  Therefore, keep walking with Jehovah looking to him for wisdom, guidance, and support. Remember that you came to love your former assignment because you put your heart into helping the people there.  Put your heart into your present assignment and see how Jehovah helps you to love it too. - ECCLESIASTES 7:10.

 We must remember that our service to Jehovah is eternal, but our present assignment is temporary.  In the new world, all of us have a change of assignment.  Aleksey, mentioned at the outset, believes that his current experiences are preparing him for that.  "I always knew that Jehovah and the new world are real, but somehow they seemed a little distant."  Aleksey says.   "Now I see Jehovah right in front of my  eyes and the new world as the next stop on my journey."  (Acts 2:25)  No matter what our assignment is, let us keep walking with Jehovah.  He will never leave us, but he will help us to find joy  in doing whatever we can in his service-wherever that maybe. - ISAIAH 41:13.

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