This one piece of advice was one of the most valuable nuggets I ever received!
I hate road trips. Mostly, I hate being in the car. Maybe it’s because I’m too impatient. I have a plan, and I want to skip over the journey and get to my final destination. But if we get in a hurry on a road trip, we will miss the beauty along the way. And it’s the same with this season of your life. While I know you want to get to your final destination, don’t miss the trip because it’s the journey that changes you. If you embrace the journey, you will see God at work all around you.
Let’s look at the Israelites as they fled Egypt. God guided their steps by a pillar of cloud by day and a fire by night. He parted the Red Sea. He provided just enough manna to sustain them each day and night. He sent quail to feed them when they complained about the lack of meat. He provided water from a rock. Each day was a new day with God, a new opportunity for God to show His faithfulness and His power.
It’s the same with your journey. You will find yourself totally broken and terrified, with absolutely nothing. And yet, in your brokenness, you will see God provide in ways you never imagined. You will see Him carefully tend to your every need and heal every broken piece of your heart. You will come to know Him deeply and intimately in ways you never dreamed possible.
You will see Him change you when you embrace the journey.
Remember how the Lord your God led you through the wilderness for these forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would obey his commands. Yes, he humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna, a food previously unknown to you and your ancestors. He did it to teach you that people do not live by bread alone; rather, we live by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. For all these forty years your clothes didn’t wear out, and your feet didn’t blister or swell. Deuteronomy 8:2-4
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