What If We Don’t Succeed.

As a little kid I dreamed of a hundred different things I would be when I grew up.

The options seemed endless, the sky was the limit.

I never really considered my life looking any differently than the movie playing in my 13 year old head.

But here I am, 12 years later, and I am doing none of the things I thought I would be doing.

And maybe it’s because of this that I’m starting to notice the people around me also struggling to be something greater than what they are. Wanting to “make it” in some area of their life. Following their dreams like a map.

We’re clinging to our passion as our purpose and that’s dangerous.

The cold, hard truth is that these dreams may never come true in the way we are hoping.

People don’t really say that anymore, especially Christians. When it comes to writing, I get a lot of “If you follow God you’ll make it” and “Ask and you shall receive (Matthew 7:7)”.

We may work harder than anyone, put ourselves out there in all of the right ways, and never get to where it is we’re trying to go. God is not in the business of paving a way for our dreams, but fulfilling His glory. So the cold hard truth is that our dreams, the ones that we think our hearts beat for, may never pan out in the way we expected them to.

What then?

Do we throw it all out the window and deem it a waste of time and passion?

Can we tear our eyes away from earthly success long enough to see what God is doing?

I pray we can.

When we’re doing what we love, hoping for a big break; let’s remember who is really in control, and whose hand is guiding everything we do.

Getting there is only good when God is leading, anything less is empty.

So if we never live up to our own expectations, never succeed in the way that we thought we would, we can hold on to the knowledge that we are right where we are supposed to be because He has led us there.