As I ended one devotion and started looking for a new one in the Bible App, one called ‘Joy for the Journey’ stood out.
The author referenced a year that meant something to me. 2015. I thought back to my own 2015 and it was as such a year of transition and the beginning of a transformation. I didn’t know that it was such a pivotal year until many years later when I looked back.
I can trace so much of who I am today to prayers of 2014, obedience of 2015 and even crazier obedience of 2016.
Since those pivotal years, God has taken me on a journey. I often laugh and say ‘I couldn’t make this up in my wildest dreams’.
In 2014 I was begging God to open a new door of opportunity. It was one of the hardest seasons of my life – and yet God said ‘not yet’.
In 2015, when I least expected, God gave me the desire and push to start looking for a home. My bank account did not say ‘new home money’. But, the desire was so strong, and through a series of delays, that I can now look back and say ‘only God’, I found my home, the first day I went looking.
In 2016, literally a few days after moving into my new home, I found myself writing a note to God – that I can now look back and attribute to everything else that has happened in my life since then.
Today, over nine years later, I can say the journey has been filled with joy. I can look back with my now 20/20 vision and my heart is so full with how God has chosen to move (or not). He kept me in the same role for another three years until my faith had been strengthened to then do the craziest ask, knowing that it was the right time.
I remain in awe. The journey is not always easy – but I can say it’s been filled with so much joy – far beyond what I could have imagined for myself in 2014/2015.
Friends, I don’t know what crazy faith thing God is asking you to do – the only thing I know for sure is that you can trust Him when He guides you to do it, that He’ll be right alongside you.
Dear Heavenly Father, even know I take a deep breath of gratitude as I look back during those years. I am so grateful that no season is ever wasted with you, and when we look back, we can directly trace how You were in the hard seasons with us, guiding us.