Five Minute Friday - Journey

One word. Five minutes to write about it. This is the idea behind Five Minute Friday and this is today's free-writing post.

journey through life

faith journey

joy in the journey

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We're all on a journey, so the saying goes. And of course, we are, but often the destination seems very far away or just unclear. When will we get there? How will we know when we've arrived? What if I take a wrong turn?

Life is full of twists and turns and unexpected detours and I've often been puzzled about whether I've made the right choice or how things could have been different. I've been discouraged when I couldn't figure out the purpose of the route I found myself on. I've been fearful that I'd gotten myself way off track and anxious because the map wasn't making sense. I've never been particularly good at reading maps, after all. To be fair, I've been pleasantly surprised and completely delighted by other unexpected turns my life has taken.

There is definitely truth in the little proverbs about finding joy in the journey, and great comfort in knowing that we don't travel alone. If we are walking with the Lord, we have a wonderfully reliable guidebook and an ever-present traveling companion that knows every bit of the road. It's good to know that I can trust him to get me to the destination HE has planned, and that he can use every step along the way to prepare me for something around the bend.

Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is to come. ~Leon Brown

For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this immense wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these past forty years, and you have lacked nothing.

~Deuteronomy 2:7~

Israel wandered in the wilderness for forty years, a detour from a journey that should have taken only a couple weeks. And yes, in large part it was because they disobeyed God. But God knew they would need training and teaching if they were to become a nation and bring his blessing to the world. It may have looked like they were wandering aimlessly, but God led them and cared for them every step of the way. We can be confident that he is leading us as well, and that he is using each experience to teach us, to grow our faith, or to discipline us; and he will always take care of us and be with us every step of the way.

Carefully follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase, and may enter and take possession of the land the LORD swore to your ancestors. Remember that the LORD your God led you on the entire journey these forty years in the wilderness, so that he might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then he gave you manna to eat, which you and your ancestors had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. Your clothing did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these forty years. Keep in mind that the LORD your God has been disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son. So keep the commands of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and fearing him.

~Deuteronomy 8:1-6~

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adentures lead us to our destiny. ~C.S. Lewis

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This post is linked at Five Minute Friday for the word prompt "Journey".

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