What Makes You Relevant?

When a person, pet, or job that once filled your day with purpose and meaning is suddenly gone, there is a major void—not just around you but also within you. 

When my youngest child left for college a few years ago, my season of being in full-throttle dad mode with kids at home ended. What came next caught me off guard. The home didn’t feel the same. More honestly, I didn’t feel the same. 

Part of that is just reinventing what this new season of life looks like. But the enemy also will use the external emptiness as an internal weapon against us. I was overcome with feelings of being irrelevant. I knew it wasn’t true…but it was real. You can hear how it played out in this Wild at Heart podcast conversation.

The enemy hopes we’ll base our validation on circumstances. Because doing so causes us to doubt ourselves first…and then God. The losses cause our story to appear less relevant. So we feel irrelevant. But that’s an illusion. Our relevancy was never lost. We just placed it in the wrong things. Even really good things—like kids and our creativity—were never meant to hold our relevancy. When we place our validation in anything other than God, we’re vulnerable to this. 

Never forget, no matter how hard the season, you are never less relevant to God.

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