Overcoming the Hurdles // Following Jesus with Confidence, Part 4

<p class="p1">Have you ever lost your way in life? Not in some major way. You’re just chugging along through life and then somehow you get the feeling that maybe, just maybe, you’re not where you’re meant to be. Things just don’t make sense the way they used to.</p> <p> </p> <h4 class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #ff9900;">1. The Fog of War</span></h4> <p class="p2">If you’ve ever had that nagging suspicion that things aren’t quite right in your life, then you're not alone. It’s something that we all experience from time to time. We don’t think about it, but in a very real sense, for most of us, life follows a pretty familiar, well–worn trail.</p> <p class="p2">We’re born, we go to school, we become adults, we marry, we have children, they go to school, they grow up … and eventually we die. I know that’s an over–simplification. And I know that a good many people don’t follow every step of that path … and I know there are many twists and turns and variations on that theme, but for most of us, that pretty much describes it.</p> <p class="p2">And along the way we go through times of great joy, times of great sadness and long periods of the mundane same old, same old. Our emotions go up and down. Our fortunes go up and down. But we’re born, we bring children into the world, we die. That’s the basic template on which the human race relies.</p> <p class="p2">So you’re following along that path and at some stage, perhaps, you encounter Jesus and you decide to walk the rest of the journey with Him – where He leads, according to His plans and purposes for your life.</p> <p class="p2">Some people find that notion pretty depressing. I used to, to tell you the truth. But these days it is singularly the most liberating thing about my life. To be able to live out the plans and purposes for my life, that God Himself dreamed up before time began – I have to tell you, it’s just unreal.</p> <p class="p2">But I, like the next person, sometimes get into those patches in life when I wonder – Am I in the right place? Am I doing