It’s inevitable. 

Get closer to doing what you feel that God is calling you to, and the doubt will creep in. 

The lies will start to flood your mind. They will not be stopped at surface level stings, attacking the very core of who you are. 

Your mind will drift to other options as though the path God has set in place is somehow not good enough, or worse, as though you know better. 

You might not recognize it right away. You might just start feeling sad or sorry for yourself. You might throw yourself what I like to call an “Existential Pity Party”, convinced that you’re not enough, you have nothing and no one, and you never will. 

You might sit at your desk at work or on your couch at home, on the verge of tears, skeptical of every decision you have made up to this point. 

You might actually cry, desperate for the comfort that you are certain you will never have again as you prepare to wade into unknown waters. 

I might say something that could be controversial, and maybe you didn’t think I was going here, but I think it’s okay to take a moment a let yourself be present in that place. Because the next steps ahead probably ARE scary and uncomfortable. You’re likely not freaking out about nothing. What lies ahead might be unknown and you likely cannot see too far in front of you. 

Be present with the reality of your situation, dear friends, but do not believe the lies. Our enemy prowls around like a lion, looking for someone to devour (1 Peter 5:8). He is in tune with the very things that strike you at your core, and his timing is crafty.

Those whispers you hear telling you that you’re not good enough and that you won’t make it, that you’ve reached the end, and this is all you’ll get – they are lies from the enemy whose one goal is to bring you to a place where you believe God cannot reach you. 

Be sad and mourn the loss of the life before, but do not believe that hope will never spring again. 

But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. — Isaiah 40:31

Be uneasy about what lies ahead, but do not believe that God is not already there. 

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. — Hebrews 13:8

And most of all, be frustrated with the current state of your life and the world, (this not the way that God intended it, friends), but let us not forget the eternal glory that we have inherited. 

For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. –2 Corinthians 4:17-18

Keep making steps toward where you see God’s leading. Follow the light, condemn the darkness.