Knowing Him Daily

07.May.2026

I have never lived alone before. Not once in my entire life.

That is not a small thing. From childhood straight through to the season just before this one, there was always someone else in the space, someone to navigate, someone to consider, someone whose presence shaped how I moved and what I said and how much of myself I brought into the room. I didn’t even know that was happening most of the time. It was just the water I swam in.

And then one day it wasn’t.

Living alone for the first time at this particular season of life is a gift I did not see coming. The quiet is different than I expected. It isn’t lonely, it’s revealing. Without the noise of other people’s needs and dynamics constantly in the background, I started hearing something I hadn’t been able to hear clearly before. Myself. What I actually like. What I actually think. What I actually want. What brings me joy when nobody is watching and there’s nothing to perform for.

It turns out she has opinions. Strong ones. She’s funny. She’s bold. She takes up space without apology when nobody is making her feel like she shouldn’t.  And somewhere in the middle of all that quiet, I found out I wasn’t alone. I never was. He had been there the whole time, in every season, through every adaptation, in every moment I thought I was just surviving on my own. That revelation, that He was always with me, was the most vital and important one of all.

Behold, I will do a new thing, God says in Isaiah 43:19, now it shall spring forth, shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. A road in the wilderness. That’s what this season is. Not a detour, not a consolation prize, a road. Intentional, purposeful, leading somewhere God already knows. He’s bringing me close to Him intentionally so I can learn to always hear His voice. Scripture says to be ready in season and out, and one of my pastors says it this way, private isn’t private. What happens behind closed doors, the moments that nobody sees but you and God, should reflect the exact same person everyone sees in public. We should be exactly who God wants us to be at all times. If you’re in a store and God says go lay hands on that person and pray for them, that’s not the moment to say oh Holy Spirit help me. You have to be ready, and that doesn’t happen by accident. It happens through preparation, through refining, through time on His Potter’s wheel.

Colton Dixon sings it straight, you were the one keeping me strong. All those years of navigating and adapting and surviving, God was not absent. He was the reason any of it held together at all. And now in the quiet He is doing something new, not building a different person but finally giving the real one room to breathe.

Aaron Shust puts the response to that in the only place it belongs, take this life I call my own. Because the deeper you go into who you actually are, the more you realize you were never really your own to begin with. You were His. You always were.

If you’ve never invited Jesus into your heart, today is the day. Pray this:

Dear Heavenly Father, 

Thank You for sending Jesus to die on the Cross just for me. I admit that I have sinned, and I repent. I ask You to forgive me. I believe that He died and rose again. Right now, I make Him the Lord of my life. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit. My sins are washed away, my past is forgiven, and my future is bright. Help me to live like the beloved that I already am in Christ. Thank you for saving me.

In Jesus name,

Amen

Make today count and see you tomorrow.