Today's question is about waiting when life seems to be aimless and going nowhere, specifically

when it comes to a career and not finding energy or excitement in that career.

But the implications cover really any kind of waiting.

This specific question comes to us from Daniel who asks this, Dear Pastor John, I'm a

recent college graduate and I feel directionless as I try to figure out what this time of my

life is supposed to be about and what God has planned for me.

In this transition from college into the working force, I feel like I've lost my energy,

my purpose and my direction.

I know that all that I do is for God's glory and I know that my joy is supposed to be

rooted in Christ and not in my circumstances.

So my question is, how should Christians like me handle this so-called quarter life crisis?

Well, the first thing to say is that this season will pass, but God intends for Daniel

to engage in the kind of spiritual warfare that God will use to make it pass.

That's the place to start, I think.

The first strategy in that warfare, that engagement, it seems to me Daniel has already pursued

namely the recognition that this condition of his mind and soul is a kind of crisis and

needs to be, as he says, handled, how can I handle this?

One way to describe the crisis would be that it's perhaps like the well-known ancient

spiritual condition called Acidia, A-C-E-D-I-A, and that comes from the Greek word for neglect,

but the term Acidia came to refer to use the words of one resource I read to us, a state

of listlessness or torpor, of not caring or not being concerned with one's position or

condition in the world, and they said it can lead to a state of being unable to perform

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