Sometimes life doesn't always make perfect sense. Sometimes you can't even tell your right from left. Sometimes everything you do feels like it is in vain. Sometimes you want to quit, throw in the towel, and leave the mess for someone else. Sometimes you just want to scream. Sometimes you just want to run. Sometimes nothing adds up. Sometimes you feel regret and confusion and loneliness. Sometimes you just want to ask why.
I don't know about you but that why has been on my mind like crazy lately.
Why am I this person? Why am I here? Why am I striving so hard? Why am I in this
But God...
Painfully and faithfully and drastically and subtly and slowly and surely is showing me, purpose. You've heard the saying God never gives you more than you can handle or my personal favorite God never brings you to a place to leave you. WOW. how much easier life would be if we carried this thought with us in every situation. You see I think we are all just searching for that purpose. That why have you brought me to this point God, what for?
I wish I could promise you that He always answers that question speedily and easily, but I simply can't. The truth is, life is not meant for quick fixes and immediate answers. It is meant for faith. It's meant for believing that our God would never bring us to a point to leave us. He would never give you that background, that platform, that position, that group of people, that circumstance with the intention of dipping out and leaving you to it.
He will never call you and not equip you.
You are where you are by no instance of chance. Because my friends, it is written. Every hardship, every victory, every shortcoming and every setup are all with purpose. He placed you exactly where you are; at this exact time in history, in this exact location, with these exact beliefs, around these exact people, with that exact urge in your heart for His purpose. Let that comfort you today when all hell is breaking loose, when you don't feel equipped, when everything seems lost. He did this. Not you, He brought you to this point for His plan not your own. And he has absolutely NO intention of leaving you. There is a point to everything you're feeling, to every experience, to every growing pain. Proverbs 16:9 tells us that "we can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps." Ephesians 4 begs us to live a life worthy of our calling.
So do it!
Live. And live hard. And live full. Stop questioning where you are or who you are or why you are and just be. Be still and know that your steps are determined. Know that it is written... every step of your journey preplanned. Live a life worthy of the calling, not a life that shies away from it out of fear. Trust in the process that is purpose. Ask for strength for the journey, the uncertainty, and the need for faith. Don't give up... Rise up.
Because my friend you were made for such a time as this.
