R.C. Sproul

I said, well, we have no choice now.

I said, we've been praying for seven days that if God wanted us to go someplace, he was going to have to make it absolutely clear in a way that we couldn't deny.

And I said, what does he have to do?

Send us a telegram from heaven?

I said, I'm going to go to the president of this place tomorrow and tell him I'm going to Boston.

And I went to see him and I told him, and he said, you shouldn't make decisions like that.

And he rebuked me and all that stuff.

But the more he talked, the more convinced I was, I didn't have any choice.

I even called Dr. Gerstner, that staid Calvinistic theologian of all ages.

I told him what happened.

I was embarrassed to tell him, and he said, you know, God does strange things even in the most staid of Calvinistic households from time to time.

Well, what I felt like is if I didn't go to Boston, I'd be looking over my shoulder for the rest of my life.

And so we packed up our stuff, and with a heavy heart, I drove away from the place that I wanted to spend the rest of my life.

and went to that unknown place to serve.

And I taught in that school for two years, two of the most miserable years of my life, and to this day I have no earthly idea why God, if He did want me there, why He wanted me there other than it was probably the only way to get me out of where I was to put me in the direction of where He wanted to send me.

I am even hesitant telling you this story because I don't think this is the normal way that God leads us.

And what I want to be doing in this brief series is looking at the biblical ways in which God does lead His people.

But I'm only telling the story for this reason, to let you know that I struggle with that as much as anybody.

I'll tell you one more student I had at that school back there in Pennsylvania.

She was a senior, and she was suffering from senioritis.