Right where I'm meant to be

What do you think?

Do you think you are right where God intended for you to be?

I read this on twitter earlier; "You are beautiful, you are strong, and you are right where you are meant to be" and it really made me stop to think. Am I right where I am meant to be?

Probably not.

If you know me, I think you would have to agree that based on all of my life choices I am not exactly where God intended for me to be 25 years ago when I said I agreed to follow Him. I took several wrong turns along the way. I can say with certainty this is not the life He would have chosen for me. Unfortunately I didn't let Him choose. I didn't grow closer to Him after I said I wanted to follow Him. I never really understood what it meant to have a personal relationship with Him. I continued to try to do life on my own. I made decisions based on what was good at that moment as opposed to seeking His will for my life. Often times I even knew I wasn't making the best decisions but chose to make them anyway. Sometimes I think we probably all choose to ignore the possible consequences thinking if we just don't get "caught" it really won't hurt any one.

So no, the more that I think about it, I don't think I'm right where I'm supposed to be. And I'd say the same goes for a good portion of us. What a downer this post would be if I ended it right here.

But I won't! There is good news to share as well.

When people tell others that they are right where they are meant to be, their intentions are good. I'm sure I've said this to my fair share of people as well. However now I will consider whether I mean it before I say it again. Sometimes it does fit. Sometimes you are in a situation that you were placed in by God Himself and in those cases you are in His will, you are right where you are meant to be, at that moment.

And there is more good news!

Just because we haven't always made the right choice doesn't mean God can't use us right where we are.

Right where we are might not be right where we were meant to be, but so long as we seek God, wherever we are, He can make good come from it. God doesn't keep score of how many wrong turns we take so long as we seek His forgiveness and desire to start taking steps towards Him. God can pick us up from right where we are standing, no matter what we are standing in the middle of, and use us, so long as we are willing to seek His will and call Him Savior of our life! God can use our failed marriages/ relationships, struggles with alcoholism, drug abuse/addiction. He can use single parents, married parents and absent parents. God can use our struggles with finances. God can use absolutely any struggle or difficult or disappointing circumstance we might have gotten ourselves into. God can pick us up from any pit we might have dug ourselves into and set us on His path. Can you think of any better news?!

So while I don't think I'm on the path God would have ideally intended me to be on, I'm on the path He knew I was going to take. Nothing surprises Him and He was still ready and waiting for me when I realized the mistakes I was making. He was ready to scoop me and up and guide me. He's ready every day to do just that for me, all I have to do is ask Him and agree to whatever He asks of me. The same goes for you! You can be right where He already knows you are and He will lead you right where He wants you to go from there. If you are struggling with feeling like you are too far gone, or you need to fix this one thing first, stop. It will never happen, or there will always be another struggle. Seek Jesus now, He's ready and waiting to scoop you up too! He's ready to set you on a path that leads straight to Him!