Have you ever felt caught between what God was speaking over your life and what others were saying about your life? Struggling between the promises of God over your life while living under everyone else’s opinion?
Have you ever felt overlooked by people? Passed over, forgotten, or underestimated?
Have you ever been tempted to believe that someone else’s inability to recognize your calling meant God had changed His mind about it? Somehow the affirmation from others carried more weight than the truth the Lord has spoken into your spirit?
We can find this tension many times across scripture. The children of Israel, at the start of Joshua, was one of those. Let’s look.
“Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people… Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you.” — Joshua 1:2-3
Joshua and the children of Israel stood at a crossroads where everything seemed to be changing. The leadership changed. The season changed. The challenges changed.
What did not change was the assignment.
God had not changed His mind about His purpose for His people. The mission was still the same. Joshua was to lead Israel forward into what God had promised from the beginning.
What about Esther? An orphan girl in a foreign land. There was nothing about her circumstances that suggested she would one day stand before a king and play a pivotal role in the deliverance of an entire nation. To most people, she was just another young Jewish woman living in exile.
Yet heaven saw something different.
Long before Mordecai said, “Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” (Esther 4:14), God had already been positioning her for that moment. The crown did not create her assignment; it revealed it. The palace was simply the place where heaven’s purpose became visible to everyone else. Her assignment was clear.
See, God’s call is not as fragile as our circumstances, the people around us, decisions being made with or without us, what we see or don’t see.
If God has given you an assignment, oh friend, you can trust Him to carry it forward through everything that comes your way.
I’m reminded of Philippians 1:6: And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
So how do you do it when the voice of the enemy and the voice of others are louder than your own? How do you do it when nothing seems certain? I don’t have it figured out, but I’ve had to learn that when Jesus is all you have, when He is all that makes sense in a topsy turvy world, He becomes all you need. So…
1. Stay focused on Jesus.
Not on recognition. Not on approval. Not on being understood. Not being seen. Eyes always on the Potter; never on the clay.
2. Stay rooted in Christ.
Let the assignment come as God speaks it. Heaven knows how to announce what earth has missed. Pray. Fast. Consume the Word.
3. Choose obedience.
What God has already spoken over your life does not need to be defended; it needs to be walked out in obedience.
Jesus is the answer, friends. He always has been, and He will continue to be even over the things uncertain in your life. Stay focused. Stay rooted. Choose to be obedient.
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So Will I 