What moment do you find yourself in? What message do you hear? What is your ambition, and is it aligned to the heart of God? What pace do you descend the mountain? What is your purpose? These questions are at the heart of what an adaptive map for your life looks like. We finish our walk through the story of Abram with the apostle Paul's take on Abrams's answer to his call and continue to find it rhymes with our own story. Community is at the center of our experiencing the invitation of God to partner with him, which can be messy. What does it look like to be a safe space for the people around you? In this episode, Josh and I reflect on how we cultivate the community around us and encourage each person to listen to how a loving community is the bedrock of our experience of hope.

An adaptive map that doesn't break recognizes the reality of opposition in our lives, a force that attempts to remove us from the path that we are on. How do we walk on the path that our map has drawn for us? Pace is the way we think about how we intentionally move down from the mountaintop into the valley, and purpose is the reality that we will also always be called to descend, knowing full well the obstacles that lie ahead. How do we navigate the consequences of our choices, both good and bad? Have you ever had moments where hope seems elusive? Josh and I reflect on moments in our own lives where we also have faced these realities, and how an adaptive map allows us to continue to move forward with confidence amid our failures.

Ambition reveals our character… But what happens when we choose to not accept the invitation, or our ambition does not align with the character of God? Can we forfeit our call? Can we be disqualified from the blessing that God has invited us into? Josh and I wrestle with these questions as we read through the story of Abram, who has moments where his ambition is aligned with who God has called him to be, as well as moments where it is not. What does the story of Abram reveal to us about the character of God and the nature of His call on our lives?