Getting Beyond Your Past and Into Your Purpose

“By my God I can leap over a wall” – Psalm 18:29

Many are the walls that stand between me and who God has purposed me to become. My past rises up made by each sinful decision, which like blocks, are stacked one on top of the other. Strongholds from the past often seem insurmountable because I failed to deal with them one at a time. I have unwillingly constructed a wall of failures pieced together by the mortar of neglect and apathy. Left to myself I would never get beyond the wall to my destination. But “by my God” the wall of my past can at once be conquered.

The wall of Jericho was a product of Israel’s failure to tackle a problem head-on in God’s timing. So after 40 years of wandering through the wilderness, they were forced to deal with a problem that had been compounded by a lack of faith, apathy, and neglect.

Be thankful my heart, that I need not deconstruct this intimidating structure for there are bricks in my own wall that left me with massive scars. Like Joshua of old saw God bring the wall down in a moment, that same God will strengthen my feeble legs and enable me to leap over my strongholds of past failure. And leap I must, not in my strength, but by the power of my God. And as He swiftly and gently conquers that which I could not, I must hold tightly to Him for He alone knows what awaits me on the other side of the wall. This thing I do know, that as I move toward the heights of His purpose for my life, He will enlarge the path beneath my feet and deliver me into a spacious land because He delights in being my God (v. 19).

Application:
What walls have you constructed through neglect and apathy that are keeping you out of the “promised land” of God's purpose for your life?

Are you prepared to face those walls and take a leap of faith headlong into God’s purpose regardless of how intimidated you are by the fear of failure?