Along our journey with Jesus, life doesn’t necessarily get easier. But it does become more meaningful.
We learn there are people who should have left our lives a long time ago. Who don’t help us in our walk with God. If anything, they hurt instead of heal. They take the best of us. What costed us to grow in Christ, they take advantage of. They lessen our worth.
We learn there are mistakes that we’d like to undo. Where we focused on relationships and ideals that would realistically in Christ, never materialize. If anything, it distracted us from drawing closer to God. What costed us to truly recognize our mistakes, made us appear ignorant and feel stupid.
We learn there are seasons in life where we are blind to the truth. Character is always revealed over time. But some of us take longer to figure it out. Because we wanted something so badly, we couldn’t discern truth. Because we were in a fragile place, we thought we’d needed stronger arms to hold us. Consequently, our blindness led us to choose inferior choices. What costed us to find light in our blindness, often brought regret that the enemy is still trying to hurt us.
Truth is. We are still trying to figure it out.
Take a deep breath. Stop condemning yourself. God doesn’t equate your wrong decisions by giving up on you. He is still working. He is still giving out pieces of forgiveness on sunny and rainy days. His umbrella still covers our inadequacies and mistakes.
“I have a plan for you,” God says. Do we like new plans? Not always. Because what they really are, are unknown plans. But God, who created showers of rain, also has days so clear we can see forever. Trust God with your forever. Trust God with your whole journey.
“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.” — Jeremiah 29:11