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Letting Go of Others' Opinions: Boldly Living as an Offering to Jesus

Updated: Mar 9, 2022

By Faith Eury Cho

God's Brave Women - Faith's Story


A congregation member once asked to meet with me over coffee. She was cordial and seemed to be interested in the ministry that I was doing.


I shared how I was originally on the pre-law track in college and thought that I would earn a law degree for Kingdom purposes. However, the Lord led me another way, which I gladly embraced.

She smiled through the conversation politely and at the end said, “You would have been a good lawyer,” and left it at that.


It was a packed statement. In the context of our conversation, she was basically saying that she was glad to see that I was content with my life, but she could not deny the lost “potential” of what my life could have looked like with a law degree, power, and money.


 

"She was basically saying that she was glad to see that I was content with my life, but she could not deny the lost “potential” of what my life could have looked like..."