If you’ve known me for more than a year, you know how much I’ve struggled with having to know how everything’s going to work out. I have this desire to know everything about where I’ll be in a month, a year, and when I’m 50. That desire is really driven by fear. I don’t encourage anyone to a life of aimlessness, but I do know that we can’t have control of our lives.
Over the past year, our experience at UpRising Church has taught me an incredibly valuable lesson, life isn’t about the destination, it’s about the journey. If it were about the destination, then God would call us up to heaven immediately to be with Him when we enter into a relationship with him, right? But He doesn’t do that, he leaves us here – on this earth – for one thing….for the journey.
I want to spend the rest of my life enjoying the journey. Sometimes the journey will seem all to uncertain (as it does for us now) and at other times, it will make perfect sense – but the point is this – I want to soak it in. I want every hard day to increase my faith and every easy day to increase my joy. I want to love my God more, my wife more, and people more every single day. I want to be exactly where He wants me to be, when He wants me to be there.
Living for the journey….
mjd
