listening to the voice that created us

​I believe I was created. I believe I was created for a purpose. I've spent way too much of my life longing for purpose to believe I wasn't intentionally created for one. I get not everyone believes that. I just know I do.

Because I do, as much time as I've spent pursuing my purpose I've spent tracking down the creator of it. And you know, the closest I ever feel like I get to that is on a trail in the woods.

Or on top of a mountain.

Or looking out across an ocean that has no end.

The closest I ever get to Him is in silent awe of what he has made.

It's in those moments when I hear my creator say, as grand as I've created this, I've created grandness in you.

I think it's good to engage with the seven billion other voices on the planet. We were created for that engagement. But there are times those voices separate us from the one who can show us who we are, who can show us our purpose.

There are times those voices tell us God's love for us isn't as persistent as a walk through the forest. There are times those voices tell us God's love for us isn't as high as that mountain or as infinite as that ocean.

That's when we need to separate from the voices that separate us. That's when we need to go to the trail or to the mountain or to the ocean - not to escape - but to be reminded.

Be reminded that we are not who the seven billion voices on this planet want us to believe we are. But instead, be reminded that we are who the one who created us created us to be.

There are many times in the bible when Jesus went out in the wilderness. Not to escape it all. But to be reminded.

Sometimes clarity isn't about silencing all the voices that confuse and distract us. Rather, it's about finding the place where we can hear only the voice of the one who created us.

A lot of people have thoughts on who they think we should be.

Only one person knows who we were created to be.

It's up to us to find the place where we feel closest to that voice.