We’re traveling this weekend. We’ve traveled a lot over the
nearly 40 years of marriage. Some trips were overnighters, some were just day
trips. In more recent years we’ve taken a couple of long trips. No matter where we go or what we are doing, I
am bound to leave something important at home.
This time it was a simple bottle of shampoo, easily rectified by
visiting yet another of those “discount centers” we all know and love.
Life itself is a lot like travel. You go places. You see
sights. You live dreams. You meet folks. You experience high mountains, you
travel through desert valleys. There are dangers along the way. There are
surprises and wonders as well.
Most trips are of great value and have lasting wonderful
memories. The trip into marriage I especially like! Then there’s parenthood
(yes it has ups and downs, but it’s good).
Milestones are met with joy. Surprises turn out to be blessings.
Some travels are nothing you’d ever ask for on your own.
There’s the travel through sickness, loss, bewilderment, rejection, pain, fear.
Those kinds of trips you never plan for and you never want to take again.
But with every road we travel, each of us can, if we
prepare, take the important things with us. We do not have to leave anything we
need behind. For the traveler who is in
Christ, it’s all provided for, even before we need it. The Lord Himself is our
Trip Planner and our Travel Advisor. He will tell us which road to take, where
to turn around and how to get to our destination.
But He’s more wonderful than that. He provides the
essentials in the trip itself. We have been given a full supply of strength for
the journey, hope for the road, joy for transportation. He lavishes us with love and peace, so that
when the going gets tough, we can remain calm and keep our eyes on the road
ahead.
Are you traveling today? Are you going down a well known
road or are you traveling unfamiliar territory? Maybe you picked wrong or
someone sent you the wrong direction. Either way, God is providing the way for
you. He’s given you fresh light for the dark road, sure signs for the unknown
road and promises to give you the desire to go on when all looks wrong.
Oh beloved! God has provided everything for you! He’s made
declarations in His Word that you can repeat so that you don’t lose heart. The enemy may have thrown his own plans right
in your face to distort the windshield of your heart, but God is providing
clear insight for living as you drive through the mistaken information into His
Truth. You will be able to pull out your
travel bag of the Word and see that God says
He loves you and He has wonderful
plans for you and He’s carrying you beyond the trip at hand. His destination for you is success and
victory. Nothing else will do.
Refer often to His Book of Love, your roadmap for the trip,
for the essentials to take with you and for your refreshment. He’ll always be
with you to guide you because He loves you and He’s for you and that’s all that
really matters.
2 Corinthians 9:8 And God will generously provide all you
need. Then you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to
share with others.
Philippians 4:19 And my God will supply all your needs
according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
2 Peter 1:3 By His divine power, God has given us everything
we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know
Him, the one who called us to Himself by means of His marvelous glory and
excellence.
Psalm 25:5 Lead me by your truth and teach me, for you are
the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in you.
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