Through the lens of Young adult

Moses is 40 years old when he kills the Egyptian and runs. He is 80 years old when God finally calls him at the burning bush. Forty years between the failed first attempt and the actual deliverance.

That ought to land. You are in a season where you have probably already had at least one first attempt that did not go the way you hoped. A relationship that ended badly. A version of yourself that didn’t pan out. A try at the calling that fell apart.

The Father is not done with you. Moses spent forty years in the wilderness being formed by tending sheep, learning the desert, becoming someone who could lead a people through forty more years of the same desert. The wilderness was not a detour. It was the school.

If you are in a wilderness right now, the Father is shaping you for something specific. The pace of His formation is rarely the pace of your impatience. He is not in a hurry. And He is not gone.

One small thing today: in the wilderness you are in, ask the Father — what are You forming in me here that I will need later? Listen for what comes. Write it down. Keep showing up to the next forty days.