The Unknown

I think if it was my choice I would just skip the first step of anything unfamiliar. I've always wanted to know how everything would be, how to act, what to say so that I could just relax.

Even in situations that were new I usually had something to cling to, a person I knew or a purpose for me being there. But that's all changed particularly this last year and I'm not going to lie its been pretty scary.

Not just in one area but in almost every aspect of my life I've been walking in 'uncharted territory'. I guess it was never a question if I was prepared or if I could adjust quite quickly to change. It was truly a question of my level of faith.

Again and again, I had to realise that all because I hadn't been planning for this, didn't mean God hadn't been preparing me for it. 

I had to remind myself that because I hadn't even thought of it that only God could have orchestrated it.

Yet somehow it seems so much easier to walk or run along a path already paved but when it seems hidden and untouched, you just want to go back the way you came.

In those times, over and over again God would remind me of this verse:

'Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. '
Deuteronomy 11:24

God wants to take us where no one has been before and yet the devil can so often whisper 'follow the rest of the world'.

We need to throw away our 'world compass' and let God be our guide. Don't be deterred by the unknown. Don’t be afraid because you seem to be going in alone.

‘Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD will personally go ahead of you. He will be with you; he will neither fail you nor abandon you.’
Deuteronomy 31:8

All God needs us to do is to walk, step after step where he leads us. With every step I made in faith, it was as if each bit of the path ahead of me became clearer. Even though I was uncertain, as I walked my feet were made steady.

As much as I so wished I could predict how everything was going to play out, I actually started to enjoy God's spontaneity.

Because I knew that even though it was unknown to me, it was never unknown to God. He was just slowly bit by bit revealing his amazing plan to me.  

It was only then that I began to make the connections, that I couldn't believe I hadn't made sooner!

But that's the beauty of it, God gets the greatest glory when man's qualifying system fails and his perfectly positioned vessel walks in.

So if you're anything like me, you need to stop trying to plan a safe route or 10 back-up options and just start walking.

God doesn't need your blueprint or your plan, he just needs your faith. I know the unknown is scary but it's in the wilderness where some of the greatest miracles take place.

‘See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.’
Isaiah 43:19

It’s time to put one foot in front of the other, take that leap of faith and trust in his perfect plan friends. He will never fail us.