519 Making of a Warrior

Whatever you’re going through right now, yes this present mess or stress, understand God is using it to prepare you for the role you will play in the future. You are being strengthened and refined today for a tomorrow full of purpose. We can make it through most anything if we know it’s for a purpose. If we know the path is taking us somewhere good we can stick with it. It’s when we lose faith in the destination that we wander off path and get stuck. God has a plan for you. He has a destination in mind for your life. A purpose that is a perfect fit for you in every way. A future that uses your every talent and every experience, making you the absolute ideal person for the job. No one else will be able to do this like you. But maybe you don’t see that future yet. Maybe God hasn’t revealed his plans to you … will you still trust him? Will you still trust that he has a plan, it’s a good plan, you haven’t screwed that plan up, you haven’t missed out on the plan, and everything you’re going through right now is simply preparing you better for that plan. Ahhhh, feel the release right there? You’ve been trying to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders all while God has been saying, “girl, if you’ll turn that over to me the whole world fits perfectly in the palm of my hand.” My son is a 20 year old soldier in the US Army. I’m in El Paso, TX visiting him for the first time in over a year. When he left our home In July 2018, he was a boy full of potential. Potential to change the world, or potential to ruin his own. If you’re raising teens, you know exactly what I’m talking about! There’s a whole lot of potential for good and bad wrapped up inside our teens who are wrestling to figure out who they are in the world. Who I see today is a man becoming who he was always created to be. Let me be real clear, the only way the good potential won out over the bad potential was HARDSHIP. He went through the hardest struggle and training of his life. He had zero comforts from home, no mama to protect him, and no daddy to tell him what to do. He wasn’t playing warrior video games, he was in real life warrior training. Only the most extreme pressures could have made this impact. Only the most stressful of circumstances could have strengthened and refined him in this way, this quickly. I’m convinced if he would have stayed home, suckling on the ‘teet’ of comfort, he wouldn’t be half the man he is today. He was made to be strengthened in the struggle and be refined in the fire. AND SO WERE YOU! You see, we want change while we want everything to stay the same. Life simply doesn’t work that way. Just as my son couldn’t become a warrior sitting in my basement playing Call of Duty, you can’t become the woman God created you to be living in comfort. Comfortable living leads to unmet potential. Comfortable living leads to drifting. Comfortable living leads to the bad outweighing the good. Comfortable living leads to boredom, and it’s in the boredom we make bad choices and settle for bad lives. Comfortable living leads to future disappointment where you wake up one day miserable in a life you don’t like, looking in the mirror at a person you no longer recognize, without the energy to do anything about it. And your creator loves you so darn much that he just won’t let you sit there in comfort to waste away. This is why he has shaken your world up. Perhaps this is why he has allowed your current disaster. It’s so that you don’t miss the life available to you. It’s so that you are prepared for the role you’re going to play in the future. There’s a warrior inside of you and she simply couldn’t come out with the way things used to be. The life you really want isn’t easy, it’s fulfilling.