A topic that’s been heavy on my heart this past year has been walking through the wilderness. 

As I entered into my first year of college last fall, I felt foreign to the world. I didn’t have sports anymore, I was distant from friends that I have grown up with, and I was scared to death of what the future looked like for me. 

I would think to myself, “How do I navigate my future when I have no idea what it even looks like, or where the Lord is leading me? What if I choose the wrong career path and waste my life and money going to school for something I don’t even like?” 

One day at bible study we were discussing being obedient to the Lord. As we were discussing this, the question I previously stated came into conversation. We began talking about what if we think we’re being obedient to the Lord, but in reality the Lord was leading us somewhere different. 

My pastor told me something that gave me such peace. He said that no matter which path you choose, the Lord will be glorified if you are choosing HIM and putting HIM in front of your every step. That reminds me that no matter where I am in life, or how foreign the circumstances seem, the Lord will be glorified. 

Another thing to add is that when it seems you are in the wilderness, make sure that your identity is being found in Christ. Not in your boyfriend/girlfriend, sports, social media, or the world. 

When we lose focus on who God calls us to be, we lose focus on where he calls us to be. 

Going forward, I hope to encourage everyone with this verse from Isaiah 42. In verse 19 it says, “Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers on the desert.”