Faith Building & God’s Word

I remember my mother having a discussion with my father, and at the end she said “they’re just acting crazy. They are grown and know better but they’re acting crazy.”

I of course was fascinated by their discussion but had no idea what they were talking about. I wondered who was crazy!

I understand now though.

WHEN YOU ARE REASSESSING YOUR LIFE

Is This All There Is? God Has a Better Answer Than That Question.

You are in the middle of your life — not at the beginning, not at the end, but somewhere in the middle where you have enough behind you to measure it and enough ahead of you to feel the weight of what you do with it. And the measuring has produced questions. Not a crisis, exactly — just a persistent, circling reassessment. You look at where you are and compare it to where you thought you’d be. You look at what you have and compare it to what others seem to have.

And the question that keeps returning, the one you can’t quite silence, is: is this all there is?

If that question has been circling in you lately, you’re not alone, and you’re not doing anything wrong by asking it. Let’s talk about what it means — and where God wants to take you from here.

The Thoughts That Circle in the Reassessment

The mid-life reassessment has a particular sound — a set of thoughts that return on their own, often at night, often when the quiet of the day creates space for deeper questions to surface:

●      Is this all there is? Is this what the rest of my life looks like?

●      I thought I’d be further along by now — in my career, in my purpose, in my direction.

●      Other people seem to have figured something out that I haven’t. What am I missing?

●      I’ve done what I was supposed to do. Why doesn’t it feel like enough?

●      What do I do next? What should I be doing with the years I have left? Which way do I go next?

●      I don’t feel the strength or purpose I used to feel. Where did it go?

●      Is God still working in my life? Does He still have something significant planned for me?

These are honest questions. But they aren’t meant to circle indefinitely.

They’re meant to drive you toward the God who has already answered them — in His Word, in His plans for you, and in the specific promises He’s spoken over the days still ahead.

What the Discontent Is Actually Telling You

Here’s something important: discontentment isn’t always sin.

Sometimes it’s your soul’s accurate reading that something is misaligned — that there’s a gap between how you’re living and how you were designed to live.

A person walking fully in God’s purpose isn’t usually asking whether this is all there is. They’re too engaged with what He’s placed in front of them to wonder if something else would be better.

So the question isn’t whether the discontent is real. It’s: what is it pointing toward?

God’s answer isn’t a different life. It’s a deeper engagement with the life He’s already given you — through His Word, His Spirit, and the purpose He placed in you that hasn’t yet been fully walked out.

Be Strong. Take Courage. He Is With You.

God spoke to Joshua at exactly this kind of threshold — not at the beginning of Joshua’s life, but in the middle of it, right where everything was about to change:

“Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you… that you may prosper wherever you go. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night… For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

— Joshua 1:7–9

God didn’t hand Joshua a detailed five-year plan. He gave him a posture:

stay in My Word,

don’t deviate,

be strong and courageous.

The prosperity that followed was guaranteed by God Himself.

What God Actually Means by “Prosper”

The Hebrew word behind “prosper” in that passage is tsalach — and it means far more than financial success. It carries the sense of:

●      Rushing forward with force — momentum, not stagnation

●      Breaking through — what was blocking the way gives out

●      Being fruitful in God’s economy — not just profitable, but producing what you were designed to produce

●      Advancing by strength that comes from outside yourself — God-given, not self-generated

●      Being brought to completion — fully becoming what you were made to become

That’s what God promised Joshua, and it’s what’s available to you when you stay in His Word and walk in His strength instead of your own.

The Prayer That Asked God to Enlarge What Was Small

Tucked into a genealogy in 1 Chronicles is a prayer that stands out because it’s so specific and so bold:

“Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain! So God granted him what he requested.”

— 1 Chronicles 4:10

Jabez didn’t accept the limitations of his beginning as the boundaries of his future. He believed God had more, and he asked for it — specifically and boldly. God answered him. That same prayer is available to you today.

Five Promises for the Days Still Ahead

●      Ecclesiastes 7:8 — “Better is the end of a thing than its beginning.” You are not past your best days. You’re approaching them.

●      Job 8:7 — “Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would increase abundantly.” God’s pattern is increase, not decline.

●      Isaiah 40:29–31 — “Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles.” The strength for what’s ahead is His to give, not yours to manufacture.

●      Philippians 4:11–13 — “I have learned, in whatever state I am, to be content.” Contentment is learned, not inherited — and Christ’s strength makes it possible.

●      Jeremiah 29:11 — “Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” The future He promised is still standing.

How to Move from Reassessment to Renewal

1.     Stop measuring your life against other people’s. Comparison is the root of most mid-life discontentment. God isn’t grading you on a curve.

2.     Get back into God’s Word — meditate in it day and night. The prosperity God promised Joshua was tied directly to staying in the Word.

3.     Pray the prayer of Jabez, specifically and boldly. Don’t be vague. Ask for real enlargement in real areas of your life.

4.     Be strong and take courage — as a choice, not a feeling. God commanded it, which means it comes before the feeling does.

5.     Wait on the Lord. This isn’t passivity — it’s positioning yourself, like the eagle finding the rising air, to receive strength you can’t generate on your own.

6.     Believe the best days are still ahead. Speak it, and start walking toward it.

A Good Word for You

The question is “is this all there is?” was never meant to be answered by comparing your life to everyone else’s and concluding something is wrong with you.

It was meant to drive you toward the God who designed you for more than any set of circumstances can fully hold.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. Your latter end will increase abundantly. You are not past your best days — in God’s economy, you’re approaching them. Be strong. Take courage. Pray boldly. Wait on Him. And carry this promise with you:

“Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”

— Isaiah 40:31

You didn’t arrive here by accident. God had these words ready for you today.

Get our Free Bible Resource for you, Reassessing Your Life,  HERE 

I believe God has more for you. Ephesians 3:20 promises God has more than you can ask for or think.

To God Be All the Glory,

Deborah (MIlls) Booth

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