The Road to Nowhere
If I’m being frank, this has been an incredibly frustrating week. Well, much longer than a week, but I’d rather not get into all that.
Nothing is going well. I feel like I’m beating my head against a brick wall with my job, my writing, my health, my personal life, my spiritual life…
It’s like I’ve fallen into a hole and can’t see the way out. And I’m so weary from clawing, from fighting, from trying. So tired of repeating what has become my mantra: You are a failure.
Because there’s no denying it.
I have failed at everything. Marriages. Family relationships. Careers. Hobbies. Dreams. Goals.
Suffering either produces perseverance (leading to character-building and eventual hope) or it makes you feel like you’re on a long road to nowhere.
If you’ve ever felt like I do, and the road seems to be a never-ending frustration with no off-ramp, remember that success actually isn’t the goal!
It’s letting our sheer inability to do it all well be a comfort, because it’s a load we were never meant to carry.
And we really aren’t called to wallow in our weakness but to rest in his strength!
Let’s stop trying to be the driver on this road when we are meant to trust Him from the passenger seat.
Any impact we have is through His anointing. And His anointing is never wasted.
And He is more than capable of making it all work out in the end.
2 CORINTHIANS 3:5
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.
JOHN 15:16
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit–fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
2 CORINTHIANS 12:9-10
Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me. That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
PSALM 37: 23-24
The Lord directs the steps of the godly.
He delights in every detail of their lives.
Though they stumble, they will never fall,
for the Lord holds them by the hand.