For 20 years, from the time I came to stand on the solid stone Foundation called Christ, I built the structure of my Christian life using someone else’s plans, materials, and methods. I built a life and set the rhythm for my faith by relying on other people’s vision for my life. I trusted them to know what God wanted for me because they had known the Lord longer, and they were in a position of authority over me.

After committing my life to Him, I was desperate to know Jesus, and in my desire to know Him, I blindly followed another human who seemed to know so much more about God and what it meant to be His follower than I did. I allowed this human to define what my walk with Him should look like. I ended up confused, depressed, anxious, and oppressed.

Thankfully, my God is a jealous God, and He will not allow anyone else to sit on the throne of my life. And so, He moved me out from under that person’s authority and tore down every structure that was not built by Him in my life. Every piece of framework I had put up to support and shape the structure and rhythm of my faith was left lying in rubble around me.