This Journey

Do you ever have days where the kind words of others just make things worse? For instance I keep hearing "It's not about the destination, but about the journey" and I get that we can get caught up on the future and miss the present, but we can also get so tied down in the present that we forget that this moment isn't forever and there is a destination ahead. Life can get really hard sometimes, and this "journey" we are on can feel really long, and never ending, but their is a destination. It helps if you know the destination, it gives you something to look forward too, something to strive after. But the truth is we don't always get to know the destination. It's like walking in the pitch black darkness with no flashlight. This weekend I was having a really bad headache and was getting really angry with my body and myself and just my circumstance. Today I was reminded of God leading the Israelites out of Egypt. The Israelites weren't really sure of the destination either, and the journey was getting very long, 40 years! Yikes! And so they began to get angry at God, and began to lose trust in him. I totally get the Isrealites. 40 years is a long time to be hanging out in the desert folks! I can't imagine having this headache for 40 years. But God was there and he went before them everyday seeking the next place to lay their heads at night and rest. Deuteronomy1:32 In spite of this, you did not trust in the Lord your God, 33 who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go. So I am reminded that I am not in this alone, and neither are you. And that I am not searching in the dark. God is constantly ahead of me preparing the way, and that if I trust in him he will show me the way I should go. It's then up to me, to actually obey or not to obey. He never promises that it will be easy, or fun, but he does promise to be there with me every step of the way.