Blake Robert Templeton argues that calling a closed door "God's redirection" can hide disobedience or failure to hear God. He pushes listeners to ask what they broke or missed, and to identify the one thing they resist doing that God is calling them to do.
This may seem controversial, but I hear all the time people saying, God redirected me. We're going this way. Yeah, I'm in a certain season and God's taking me this way. I mean, we call it redirection. I mean, you call it redirection, but I mean, redirection implies God's moving you. What if you just didn't listen? Like, what if you disobeyed? There's a version of faith that's actually avoidance dressed in the right language as it's a closed door. The season he's taking me through. But all those words let you skip the part of you asking, like, what did you break? How did you not walk in his footsteps? So in this moment, if you're in one of those seasons, you might just start asking the question, how might I surrender to Jesus better right now, hear his voice right now, so that I don't have another season to go into? What's the one thing that I should be doing right now that I don't want to do, but 'What God wants me to do?' Because maybe he's having to fly the plane back and forth around to put you through the same scenario so that you'll actually hear his voice and obey.
