Surrendering everything to God

By: Karen Kate Beltran

God has moved my life and have blessed me with so much more than I can ask. And as expected, there will be pit stops in this journey of life. We are given clues that detour us in which way we would go. To choose to continue our path to God or to let it slip away. Allow me to share with you, one of the best testimonies I have in my life. That one pit stop, I never regretted.

Last 2009, I got hired at a BPO company as a Customer Service Consultant. Trained and be like one, in span of 2 months, I got promoted to be a part of the Internal Help Desk and Escalations Department that deals with higher level of concerns from customers. Yes promotion was there but greater responsibility was at risk. One rude response to the customer and termination will follow. Patience was the hardest virtue to exert. All-out patience and empathy. As your customer gets irate, the more you boil down to sub-zero level of madness. How could you possibly do that every 15-mins? Or every 3-mins? I suffered spiritually and always blew up in anger every call I could get. I was murmuring every shift, for the entire 1 year and a half of service. Until such time that I surrendered all to God.

I knew I was not happy with the kind of behavior and attitude I developed, I didn’t like my sleeping patterns, I hated customers and easily lose my temper on them not by literally raising my voice but the way I delivered my service was out of sarcasm. I knew that God wouldn’t want it and neither I don’t want to continue working that way anymore.

May 3, 2011 was the day I submitted my resignation and the last day of work was dated June 3, 2011 effectively upon the approval of the manager.  I felt happy knowing that I will be free from those 3-minute sin and scorching temper in an 8-hr shift. I was happy being able to save up before I leave the company. But I was equally sad and worried, were will I work thereafter?

I always desire to be employed, and share God’s word with the people I work with. And so, during the last month I rendered service to my previous employer, I also applied to other companies. May 25^th of 2011, was my interview at an Oil Company.  26^th, I went absent on my shift, and 27^th-8:00am Friday- was my final interview on that Oil Company. The manager did not informed me if I got the job. I didn’t mind the other applicants as I knew that God has a plan for me. If not there, somewhere else maybe. Then as soon as I worked that night- I was rejected by the database realizing that I was already separated from the company since May 25^th. I didn’t show any frustration at all, instead, I smiled to my peers and said goodbye same night. Deep inside, my mind was questioning. So, on Saturday morning it sunk all on me that I have no job already. I prayed for God’s will to unfold in my life. I prayed earnestly.

God was so faithful that the HR personnel from that Oil company called me up on a Monday 2days after the last day of work from previous employer-informing me that I got this job.

Indeed, “He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.” –Job 5:9

As I got regularized in 3months, made me more amazed.

 John 1:16 “From the fullness of His grace we have all received one blessing after another.”

And all I did was to God, I surrendered.