Maybe You're Not Prepared, But You're Provided For

​I have avoided shifts in my life out of fear that I'm not prepared to make them. And often, that fear has come from a fear that I won't have the provisions necessary to keep moving forward.

I am discovering that this fear of not being provided for can stand in the way of an important truth: that God has already provided me far more than I've recognized. Or honored.

For the last several decades, I have been writing. I thought I was just writing. In reality, God was providing.

For the last decade, I have been teaching and presenting and public speaking. I thought I was just doing my job. But in reality, God was providing.

And not just providing for the day or week or the month, but for the future. For so often we think of provisions as cashflow, but God more often thinks of provisions as preparing out gifts and talents to flow.

Too often we think of provisions as all that we need to stay alive, when often God is providing us with all we need to make the world come alive.

God is not nearly as invested in our survival as he is in the impact that happens because of it.

Maybe we don't feel prepared. We don't feel ready. But many times that is a great myth of our own creating. God has been providing the way much longer than we've been willing to take it. Because we don't feel prepared.

God doesn't need us to know that we are prepared for a shift, he needs us to believe he's already provided all we need to make the shift possible.

Not feeling prepared is not always a good reason to sit still. It's okay to feel confused about the future, but with God, we can feel confidently confused.

Make the shift.