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I struggled a lot this past year trying to reconcile what I felt God was speaking over my life and what my life currently looked like. It honestly got to the point where it hurt \u2013 hoping and believing for God to move, yet only feeling further and further from the good future He had for me. <\/p>\n
During my last semester of college, I knew God was speaking to me about Joseph and his life, so I started studying his story. At one point, God had given Joseph a dream about the future where his brothers would be bowing down to him, and yet Joseph found himself in the darkness of a prison. He seemed so far from what he knew God spoke to him about his future. It\u2019s easy to read how the story ends and be like, \u201cGod was working all along!\u201d, but when it\u2019s your life and the end is unwritten, it can be easy to lose heart. It can be easy to question and doubt God. It can be easy to think He\u2019s forgotten you. <\/p>\n
But Joseph isn\u2019t the only person whose life looked like this. I was reading in Galatians and I noticed that when Paul was called by God to believe in Jesus and preach the gospel, his life didn\u2019t head immediately in that direction. Galatians 1:17-18 says, <\/p>\n
\u201cI did not go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went into Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus. Then after three years,\u00a0I went up to Jerusalem\u00a0\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
When I read that, it caught my attention that Paul acknowledged he didn\u2019t go where it would be expected of him to go. Rather he went AWAY from it. Also, the route from Arabia to Damascus goes AROUND Jerusalem. And on top of all of that, He then WAITED three more years to FINALLY go to Jerusalem. If I\u2019m honest, I think life can feel like that \u2013 we think we know what God wants for us, but circumstances take us everywhere BUT there. And then we wait\u2026we wait a long time. It can feel like we must have messed up or didn\u2019t hear God right or He doesn\u2019t actually have a good future for us. But, God doesn\u2019t lie (Hebrews 6:18, Titus 1:2)\u2026.so it must be something else.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve recently been realizing and accepting that God is a big and sovereign God so He has a big and sovereign will. I don\u2019t think the idea that God\u2019s will for your life is a narrow straight line is accurate \u2013 at least not anymore, because I definitely used to. I always thought that if you pray and obey Him, though life won\u2019t be perfect, it\u2019ll continue moving forward in alignment with His good plans for you in a way that will be evident<\/em>. What I\u2019m starting to understand is that from a human perspective, there\u2019s a lot of twists and turns and even circumstances that seem like you\u2019ve fallen back so far it\u2019s impossible to ever get to what God has for you. But, in God\u2019s eye\u2019s, those who love Him are perfectly where they are meant to be and He\u2019s constantly at work in the unseen for our good. I think those weave together \u2013 life\u2019s negative, confusing circumstances and God\u2019s working \u2013 so that we really are always moving forward<\/em> WITH Him, even if it looks<\/em> like we couldn\u2019t be further away, because, hey, faith is confidence in things unseen<\/em> (Hebrews 11:1). And I\u2019ve been practicing really resting in that and trusting Him that I\u2019m not forgotten and I\u2019m exactly where I\u2019m supposed to be. <\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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