More of Being Barnabas

You wonder why you are stuck in this job. You are not so proud a man as to complain that the job is not impressive, rather your despair is that does not pay well enough for you to feel like you are supporting your family. We looked at the possibilities of good that might be hidden in this work you find yourself doing: of how time spent in such a job might give you the evidence of your family's love as a thing not solely dependent on what you do to make ur lives easy and materially rich; in short, that we do not measure your worth by the paycheck you bring home...I know this is a thing a man hopes is true but only a few families are positioned to "prove" the truth. You response was that you didn't want us to have to pay such a price for this evidence to be given of our devotion. I know the feeling. You are not the only one who is costing others their convenience and comfort. In part I think you work where you do to confirm things not just about you, but also about who I am to be. Here yet again we are being given instructional significance in that way I mentioned earler, as God's sermon illustrations for all creation. You work for a uniform rental company called Arrow. Look at what that says about you and me:

During dark days in the national life of ancient Israel, one king discovered a long forgotten book which was God's word to His people. No one remembered it really anymore. When this king discovered the book, he read it and was horrified at how far the people had drifted from their prescribed relationship with their Lord. Though other prophets lived in that day--such as Jeremiah and Zephaniah--this king chose to consult an obscure woman prophet to receive the Lord's word concerning how the people should respond to this scroll they had found:

So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
2Kings 22:14.

--and her husband was a keeper of the wardrobe, while she dwelt in a school.

They inquired of her for the sake of the Josiah, the king, who had just come to discover the word of the Lord...later, this name, Josiah, is connected with the Branch in Zech 6, and I have had a lot of thoughts about this one, the Branch, of late. Lots to learn about this one, but most pointedly these words form a description:
Take of [them of] the captivity, [even] of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah; Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set [them] upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest; And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying,
Behold the man whose name [is] The BRANCH;
and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD: Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both. (both seeming to me to mean between the Branch and the one true Vine, Jesus Christ.) And they [that are] far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. And [this] shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.

Even that your company is named Arrow bears significance:

And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. Zech. 9:14

Do not lose heart, my love, nor faith. Even as things look foggier here, they are growing crystal clear in the places that will last.