Over these past several years I’ve been astounded at the realization of how close I came to missing God’s best for my life in my mid-20′s.
Moving to Alabama was not a no-brainer in the beginning. It was the absolute last place I figured I’d ever want to live.
Of course, after 5 months of unemployment it became a bit easier to separate my own castles of sand from God’s plan. But I was missing His plan. He’d tried to wake me up. A full year before I came to ‘Bama there had been an opportunity to consider coming to Alabama and I had rejected it outright. I mean, A L A B A M A of all places. Who in their right mind would want to go there?! Especially, who would go there when I had great stuff, great friends, and a great position in a huge church.
Castles of sand.
But for me, Alabama was where I must go to encounter God’s best for my life. I didn’t know as much as I thought I knew. I wasn’t as mature as ‘d assumed I was. I wasn’t nearly as prepared for life and ministry as I needed to be.
Before coming to Mountaintop I was slowly becoming entrenched in what I thought was best for my life… beginning to box God out of the equation.
Sure, it’s taken years to see God’s plan begin to take shape and the puzzle pieces begin to fit together… but looking back I can now see God’s hand at work and how a change of scenery from the Texas plains to the mountains of Alabama was exactly what I needed to get back in tune with God.
My challenge today is simply this: What have you built up around you that is prohibiting you from experiencing God’s best for the next phase of your life? … What is your castle of sand?