When a man is out of step, it could be because he is hearing different music.

 I have a friend who lives in Switzerland. Jean Luc is probably the greatest Christian I know within my generation. In 2006 JL worked for UBS, one of the largest Swiss banks in the world. The bank paid for him to have a flat just off Trafalgar Square. Linda and I went to a New Year’s Eve party in that flat, 2006.
But JL felt the Lord calling him from banking into work as a missionary. He left his job with UBS and took a 98 percent pay cut. Yes, you read that right. 98 (ninety-eight) percent. His colleagues couldn’t understand his decision, but he was sure he was doing the right thing. JL left London with his colleagues completely bewildered. But I understood why he was going.

JL could hear the music God was playing in his life, and he knew he was being called to dance differently from the others. So he went to Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet Republic, working with a mission organisation called Business with Mission.

And for his faithfulness God delivered him from the banking crash of 2007, and provided him with a beautiful wife. Anastasia is half Russian and half Ukrainian. They married in 2011 (I think it was) and now have three great children, Daria, Vera and Ilja. JL has returned to Switzerland and works as an economist for the Salvation Army.

I think of him sometimes, and how God rewarded his faithfulness.

Oftentimes people don’t understand what you’re doing, because they can’t hear the music you’re dancing to. But if you want your life to be a beautiful symphony, you must listen to God’s music in your life, and dance to it. Otherwise, if you spend your life dancing to the tunes of others, you will always be out of step. No man can be happy waltzing, if God has called him to tango.

You might find that encouraging today, if all men doubt you, it doesn't really matter. What matters is that God believes in you.

“But to what shall I compare this generation?
It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates,
“‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him!
A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”
(Matthew 11:16-19)

Thanks for reading thus far. I appreciate it. May God bless you today.