All too often in transition, we can feel as though our path is hidden, as though we’ve lost our footing. In Isaiah 40:27–28, we read God’s response in a time when Israel felt this keenly: “Why do you say, Israel, ‘My way is hidden from the LORD; my cause is disregarded by my God’? Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.”
This verse is an awesome truth for us in new seasons of life. We lose our bearings, our sense of identity, our comfortable places. We are staring at the unfamiliar. New seasons even unveil ways we have wandered off on our own, relying on ourselves to find life. This is our reminder that there is solid ground beneath in the presence of the Creator of the earth.
In every new place, He is there. He is the same here as He was in the last season, in the last location. His character and His ways toward us are steady and unchanging. This is where we can hang our hat, even before we put hooks on the walls of our new homes, or know which way to go in a new situation. The struggle is
Sometimes I see myself. I see how frantically I try to work to get life in order, to get to solid ground, when all the while it is right there underneath me if I would only rest in it. God, for some reason, often chooses to speak to us in what Elijah experienced in 1 Kings 19 as the “gentle whisper” (v. 12). We can’t hear it when we are scrambling on our own. We must learn to plant our feet firmly on the solid ground in transition—the solid ground of who He is.
Fueled by this need for solidness, I knew that God was calling me to anchor myself in Him before I moved any further into this new season.
In every season of life, God is always doing a new thing.
God is solid ground under my feet, O yes He is
