Finding Purpose in Those Spaces

Again it is my pleasure to share Hanna O'Brien's heartfelt blog, challenging all of us to step out of the familiar and into the uncomfortable.

If you would love to hear her beautiful British accent, an audio version has been attached for your convenience.

"I have consistently been a woman of faith for the past 7 years, however, the past 2 years have really shifted me from being a woman of faith, to a devoted follower of Jesus, deeply rooted in His Word and promise over my life.

Do you know what it is to live devoted to Jesus?

To live devoted means you will become uncomfortable in the world, yet live forever in the comfort of our Father.

It means you will willingly be uprooted and replanted many times over.

You will stand at the point of tension, yet choose to bear fruit in the midst.

I recently experienced a test to my devotion when my pastor asked me to stand on a stage and speak to the faces looking back at me.

In the ask I felt the prompting to say "yes", yet this was quickly followed by doubt, and a desire to run and hide.

Thoughts such as "What did you just agree to", and What if you swear" (we all have an area being refined)?

Then the thoughts went deeper into, " This is far to exposed for me and I don't want to be seen".

And there it was, the root to my doubt and fear, "I don't want to be seen!"

To be seen to me is vulnerable, uncomfortable, and exposed.

Yet in this season it is giving a Jesus-rooted purpose to the life I have lived. A life I've always felt, and has made the heads of others spin.

Yet Jesus continues to show up using it for His glory.