God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than
you want to get where God wants you to go.
Sometimes His itinerary entails coming face to face with a lion in a pit on a snowy day.
But when you find yourself in those challenging circumstances, you need to know that
God is ordering your footsteps.
You can have a sense of destiny because you know that
God has considered every contingency in your life.
And that sense of destiny, rooted in the sovereignty of God, helps you pray the unthinkable and attempt the impossible.
Destiny:
The inevitable or necessary fate to which a particular
person or thing is destined; one’s lot.
Today I spent the day soaking up some time with Jesus; I needed to press the pause button on the hustle and bustle of life and just BE, so I went to the lake with a blank canvas, paint, worship music, a new book, and a blanket. It could have been a scene out of a very artistic movie ( I watched an “artsy” movie the other night, it was terrible by the way). I started reading a book about Benaiah chasing a lion into a pit on a snowy day; it talked a lot about the fact that some people flee from difficulty, while others pursue it and overcome the “lions” of their life. It pretty much rocked my world.
I found myself praying while staring at the lake, expecting for answers to jump out of the water along with the fish. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen, but I did walk away from my date with Jesus with a much more settled heart.
I walked away with confidence knowing that God created me to change the world.
That’s a bold statement, yea? But, it’s true. I’ve always known it, but it’s only now that I’ve come to truly believe it.
I remember a time in college that I came home for the weekend to spend some time with my parents. I was completely confused about the direction that my life was heading. I told my mom I’d been having headaches a lot and couldn’t still my mind from over-thinking everything, so her and my dad came in my room to talk with me; they found me lying on my bed in the dark, weeping. Ah, tears spring to my eyes as I remember that moment. I was so lost. I was so heartbroken. I had such a desire to make a difference, yet no desire to commit to anything.
I was searching so badly for purpose for my life; I was so afraid of making the wrong decision about my future so I chose nothing. That nothing looked like partying, skipping class, and dating some not so great guys. I was terrified that pursuing the things that my heart desired would leave me alone and without a fool-proof plan, so I just wanted to be “normal”; I would be giving up a life that I could control, because the desires of my heart were way too big for my own hands to hold. It meant I would have to let it go.
Today, I realized that I’ll never be a person that this world would call “normal”; I don’t say that in a boastful way, but in a “holy moly God has crazy things for my life” way. I see things that need to change and I think they should actually change. I see injustice that should be stopped and I actually think it can be stopped. I believe that the Lord puts things within us and writes things on our hearts so we will act.
There’s something within me that gets stirred up when I think of the number of women and children being trafficked in this very moment; there’s this feisty spirit that spills out of my heart when it comes to injustice in the world. I’m no longer the lost college student lying weeping in the dark; I’m the woman that has found her voice, one that will make the stories of human trafficking victims known, one that will not relent until this injustice is stopped.
I won’t go quietly, so you should probably join me on the journey 🙂
G42 Leadership will equip me to walk forth into what God has for me; He’s created me to be a woman that agitates the waters of complacency and indifference. I’d truly appreciate your prayers and financial partnership in propelling the vision behind the27project forward.
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