just because we don't follow the way doesn't mean the way hasn't been made

Way Maker is one of my favorite songs. There are lyrics in the song that say:

You are
Way maker, miracle worker
Promise keeper, light in the darkness
My God, that is who You are

Those words encourage me. Until they don't....

I have listened to that song in the past. And in the moments of listening, I felt hope. But often when the music was done I found myself wondering, out loud, as if asking, where is my way, God?

Where is my light and my miracle?

Lately, God has been driving home an answer to those questions left unanswered at the time. Or maybe they were answered and I just refused to hear them then.

But lately, God has been telling me that just because I'm not willing to get up and follow the way he has made, that doesn't mean the way hasn't been made.

Sometimes we don't see the way God has made because we're still clinging to the way WE made. Or we're too busy feeling sorry for ourselves over the way we made. Or too busy mourning the loss of some way we made that is now lost.

God has been reminding me lately, he can make the way but he can't make me take it.

It's hard to see any new way when we're still stuck in an old way. And as long as we blame God for not paving a new way, or as long as we blame anyone, really, we are going to miss the new way that has more than likely already been paved.

God is an understanding God.

God deeply feels for our past. God mourns it with us. God will even absorb the bitterness or heartbreak or anxiety that comes with that past.

But what God won't accept is being rejected as a miracle worker - a way maker - simply because we are unwilling to move on to the way he has made.

How many miracles does God NOT get credit for because we're sitting around caught up in ourselves instead of getting caught up in the miracle God is drawing us into?

If you're like me, and you get to wondering where your miracle is, if you get to wondering when the way is going to be made for you, maybe consider it's already there.

Consider that it's already there but you can't see it because you're hanging out where life has died and not where life is begging you to come alive.

Today, come alive in a new way.

A new way created by the way maker.

Consider letting go and cling to that new way.

Because.

You are
Way maker, miracle worker
Promise keeper, light in the darkness
My God, that is who You are