Don’t Ever Go Back

Our journey with God is never about the shortest distance between two points. It's about the journey from who we are to who we’re becoming. The goal isn’t to arrive faster but to arrive as a new creation.

In my all-time favorite novel, The Paradise War, author Stephen R. Lawhead powerfully describes this process through the thoughts of the main character, Lew. 

“I could neither believe nor understand what had happened to me. For it seemed that something inside me had been awakened, some long-sleeping part of me had been roused to life. And now I could no longer be who I was before. But if I was no longer to be who I was, who was I to be?…How could I ever go back to the world I had known before? Truth to tell, I no longer considered going back a possibility. Here I was, by some miracle, and here I would stay.”

Our lives begin to change when we choose to enter into our Story with God. This shift allows us to move toward our destiny rather than remain in our past. By design, it’s a journey that awakens something inside us. And once that long-sleeping part has been roused to life, we can’t go back to the way things were. This new reality that we enter into pulsates with God’s presence. We hunger for him. Along the way, we discover possibilities we never imagined.

But to experience this, we must leave the shallow shore of our self-made life. As my good friend Nancy says, “the deeper our dependence, the deeper God goes with us.”

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