Have you ever walked through a valley with many shadows, perhaps where you feel dead to your dreams? Have you ever traveled through the desert places, thirsty for some reprieve, some oasis to give you shelter from the blistering heat of a hard life? Sometimes in life, I look up and don’t know why I am where I am, but I feel like surely God has more for me. Surely this isn’t where I’m meant to finish up. In the race that is life sometimes I run, sometimes I walk, but still, sometimes I trudge. It’s like walking through a wind storm, head bent down to shelter my eyes from the stinging sand that tries to blind me.
But God would say He’s not done with me.
He’s not done with us.
Sometimes we walk in barren places. They feel devoid of purpose or passion, but wrought with pain. Recently I was feeling rather lacking of passion, questioning decisions I had made that led me to where I was. In my questioning, God answered. He spoke this into my barren places, and perhaps He speaks it to your barren, empty place now.
Where you are? It’s not an accident. Nothing is by chance. When you say that all things work for My good, you must believe it.