Comments on: Refusing the gift of the desert road.

By: 50. my favorite posts « Here I am! Send me.

50. my favorite posts « Here I am! Send me. — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:00:38 +0000

[...] Refusing the gift of the desert road by Jon [...]

By: Aaron Harris

Aaron Harris — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:04:53 +0000

So greatly identify with this post – and like many things in my life I am getting to it about a year late! Anyways keep walking through the desert cause if you don’t keep walking then you just stay in the desert and eventually the sand gets really irritating and the BO only gets worse – so I have found to be true for me! I ask why God is keeping me in teh “heat” and he is telling me I am not keeping you in the “heat” I am trying to get you to walk through it not stay in it. I often get mad at God because I mistakenly believe that he is keeping me in the “heat” but in all actuality I am choosing to stay in it and mope. Most deserts don’t just magically get up and walk away from you, right? I guess its possible – maybe I should wait and see if it happens. Ok so that probably wouldn’t be wise! Here’s to walking on the road God has set for each of us!

By: Neethu Cherian

Neethu Cherian — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:39:40 +0000

Wow, I’ve never heard about you till yesterday when my sister posted your link on my page. She said, “sister I feel like you might need this.” I didn’t read it till today because your title just felt odd. Something nudged me to read it, and I am blessed to have done so. I am on a desert road and I definitely have been questioning my purpose out here. I am armed for battle , I do have skills (thanks to US Army lol) but for some odd reason-and I am going to accept that it’s because of God’s immense love for me-that He hasn’t sent me out to where I want to be. Today, I am comfortable with that. I’ll keep reading this till it’s stuck in my head. Thank you Jon Acuff. Thanks for encouraging me to keep on walking.

By: gb

gb — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:15:52 +0000

Dang, you’re good.

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:40:03 +0000

Thank you for re-posting this. It’s exactly where I’m at right now. I appreciate this blog so much & know that the Lord will continue to use you through writing & speaking.

By: Amanda Sass

Amanda Sass — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:23:41 +0000

So it wasn’t until I read your post that I realized resume is resu-ME. I’ve been in that desert place, the place of waiting, serving and wondering if “it” will ever come.
It’s an interesting place to be, no doubt. Sometimes I try to describe to people as walking down a LOOOOOOOOOONG hall to get to a door and I KNOW that behind the door is what the Lord has been preparing me for. I open the door with barely contained excitement and find…another freakin’ hall. And so it goes. So I press on. I’ve asked God so many times, “Do you want me doing this? Are you sure? I don’t know where I’m going or why and I’m not passionate about it!”
The response I hear: “Keep walking.”
So, head up, eyes forward and keep walking, ’cause God knows what He’s doing with all of us and is obligated in no way to disclose those details to us.

By: Christi T.

Christi T. — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:08:22 +0000

I know this is an old post, but it’s new to me, and I needed this today more than you can imagine. Thank you for sharing your heart and your journey….

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:23:35 +0000

Such a wise way to look at the long winding roads of life. Great post!

By: c

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:20:40 +0000

thank you so much, i really needed this right now.

By: Wild Bill

Wild Bill — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:38:01 +0000

So I’m reading this post for the first time today. And it’s dead on. I’ve been on the desert road for a couple of years now, and it’s been hard! It has felt like everything I have tried has been the wrong thing. But now that I think (and hope!) that I’m near the end of this road, I get it. I wasn’t anywhere near prepard for my promised land. And I stil have some work to go (and always will). But I now feel like an almost completely new person. And I like that God has used all this trouble and greif to mold me into someone stronger and better.