When Life Feels Like a Game Show

Standing on the stage of a new season.  What is familiar lies behind you and what is fearfully unknown lies in front of you.  The heat of the spotlight on you just adds to the sweat of nerves and decision-making.  Your "village" is cheering for you in the audience.  Everyone believing in you; yet silently forming an opinion of the right and the wrong choices.  In front of you are a series of closed doors.  What lies on the other side of those doors is a mystery to all.  Which one do you choose?  Which door is hiding the "jokes on you" prize and which door hides the "you've been dreaming of this" prize?  Or.....which door hides the "just average" prize?  Sometimes the fear of choosing "average" feels worse because we unfairly equate mediocrity with our identity.

Sound familiar?  Feel familiar?  Life can often resemble "LETS MAKE A DEAL!"  The Game Show of Life:  take a gamble and win big or take a gamble and lose big.  Which job do I take?  Which house do I buy?  Which treatment plan is best?  Public or private or home school?  Life is all about decisions and choices.

A series of doors on a stage of options.  A host encouraging us to choose one of the doors.  A crowd chanting our name.  Time tick-tocking; reminding us a decision is due.  Our fear of making the wrong decision paralyzing us.  The door we choose will be opening up a brand new season.  

Which door do I choose???

Then, all of sudden, everything goes quiet.  I can hear a whisper in the depths of my soul.  I can feel a peace of understanding wash over me.  I can breathe in the calmness of His closeness.......... 

You are a Jesus-girl.  Jesus is behind each door.  

I will walk with you through the door you are scared to open, I will hold your hand down the path you cannot see, and I will lead you to a place you cannot imagine.  For My Glory, I write your story.  Follow me.  I am behind every door you can choose, because "I am with you always". 

Matthew 28:20, Genesis 28:15, Isaiah 41:10