I have a confession. It is month 10 of the World Race and I don’t have it all figured out yet! I’m not really sure what is next. Ironically, it actually feels good.
The pressures of society to have it all figured out are immense. Luckily, my life choices are not dictated by what society thinks. I don’t have to measure up to what others are doing or fix my timeline on what some trendy magazine article says. If conforming to the worldview of success were my objective, I would have never gone on The World Race. I would have never experienced what it feels like to step out in faith, be obedient to the Lord, abandon everything, and step his purpose for my life.
It reminds me of Abraham. He is characterized as the father of faith. God gave Abraham several unique promises and one was God was going to give him a great piece of real estate. One day God comes to him and tells him it is time for him to go and get his land. He tells him to leave his extended family, his country, his home; everything he has ever known and go and get what is destined for him.
“by faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going" Hebrews 11:8 (emphasis mine)
Wait! God left out one very important detail. He never told Abraham where the land was. God told Abraham to go but didn’t tell him where to go. Abraham didn’t have a map or directions. He said, just go, and by faith he went.
Sometimes in life it takes more faith to wander than it does to have it all figured out. In the Lord of the Rings, Tolkien wrote, “not all those who wander are lost.” I have spent the better part of this month trying to figure out what that means. Lost is meandering. Lost is living without meaning. A wanderer is someone who knows that there is a destiny for them, but at the same time is unsure of what it is.
Abraham was not lost because he knew there was something or someplace waiting for him. Someone who is lost is lost because they do not believe and have faith that they are destined for something greater. A wanderer is someone moving in a direction. To be lost is not to move. Abraham kept moving.
I knew when the Lord called me to the race. He had a plan and it was time for me to step into it. The race is just a small part of a greater design. Without an immediate plan, I feel like I am walking into the darkness but I am going to keep going. Abraham knew something was waiting for him and so do I. So here is to moving, going, and wandering.
