Can you remember a time where you thought you were at your best?
For me it was, being around the ones I called family and friends, hanging out and being carefree.
I thought I was living my best life, but yet I had no vision or plan for my future. As time passed by I started losing those same family and friends. Not through death but through separation. I did not understand why they were starting to become disloyal and platonic towards me. All I knew was I “needed” them because they became my “best life”.
It was not until I realized that I was taking the wrong the route,and God had to use those experiences to re route me, to becoming my true best, and reach my peak of success. When you start loosing people and things it puts you in a place by yourself. Often times , just like I did, we get depressed. We do not realize this is the exact place that God wants us to be. Alone. Uncomfortable. and Still.
Before when I THOUGHT I was at my best, I had too many people around me and I had begin to loose sight of my purpose in life. I could not hear his voice, it was to noisy because of the things I was partaking in and the people who were in my ear. Many times we think living our best life is being surrounded by people who enjoy to just ”hang out”, and that is it! No purpose, no plan, no future. We get distracted because we feel in order to enjoy life we have to be in the crowd. I have come to find out that my best life started happening when I started being alone. God had to shift some things in my life to cause me to feel uncomfortable, because if he had not I would have been in the same position, around the same people, doing the same things, and getting the same results. Sometimes, we are too busy but yet in the same place. and God has to shut us down. We loose people, our life as we know shifts which causes us to become uncomfortable, and we do not have a choice but be still.
So there I was alone, uncomfortable, and still.
I could now hear , my vision was clear, and I begin to allow God to direct my paths so that I can be reconnected with purpose driven people. When God wants your undivided attention, he knows exactly how to get it. I found out that being alone, uncomfortable, and still was the best place to be. It allowed me to rejuvenate and start over. I am now at my best because I am focused and purpose driven.
When you begin to feel alone, being uncomfortable in familiar places, and being still count it as joy because this is your chance, your moment, to start over and start right.
Psalm 37:23-24 (NASB)
23 The steps of a man are established by the Lord,
And He delights in his way.
24 When he falls, he will not be hurled headlong,
Because the Lord is the One [a]who holds his hand.