637 Date With Destiny

Whatever it is you need, God knows, and it’s on the way. Wherever it is you’re supposed to go, God knows, and he is guiding you. The great news is you’re not plopped in the middle of this chaos and expected to figure it out on your own. You’re strategically placed here with a purpose and every step is divinely directed by the all-knowing. Maybe something happened this week, or even yesterday, that changed your plans and caused a different direction. Perhaps you’re like me and that change of plans and shift in direction was a disappointing one. It’s okay to feel the disappointment. It’s okay to be sad this didn’t all work out the way you imagined. It’s okay to admit you don’t know what will happen next. Then, you need to know this … it’s completely okay to be hopeful in what happens next. Yes, hopeful after disappointment, and here’s why … whatever just happened serves to guide you where you’re supposed to go to arrive exactly when you’re supposed to get there. You can hate it and you can fight it, and you can find yourself miserable and exhausted on this journey. Or honey you can trust it and go with it and find yourself intrigued by the unfolding mystery and adventure. Just because this didn’t work out this time, please don’t stop dreaming. Don’t stop planning. Don’t allow the no’s in life to diminish your search for the yes. Every no is guiding you to a greater yes. Every closed door is an invitation to continue the journey down the hallway of awaiting opportunities. Someone needs to hear this today, so please listen … you’re not being punished. This isn’t some kind of cruel card you’ve been dealt to see if you will fold and quit the game. You ask God to guide you, right? You ask for his protection, right? You seek his way and his will, right? Well, here it is unfolding and sometimes it’s best disguised as a disappointing turn of events that delays or detours you. But today you have an invitation in the middle of the disappointment, right here in this detour, right now in this delay, to look around in awe and wonder and search for what God may possibly be doing in the details of your life. There’s something here he wants you to see. There’s something here for you now. There’s an opportunity you almost rushed right by. It’s here … what is it? One of the greatest lessons we read in scripture is the lesson of disappointments, detours and delays. God guided an entire nation of people into freedom, but it wasn’t a straight shot to destiny, it was a confusing twisted journey through the desert. But God moves with purpose and he guides with our destiny in mind. We read of God guiding the Israelites out of slavery into freedom in Exodus 13: 17-18 it says “When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.” So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea.” God knows exactly what he is doing. He is leading you somewhere and it may not be the direct path he wants you on. He may be protecting you from your own human ways by taking you the long way around. God knew the Isralites would change their minds and go back if they faced war, so he instead took them on the longer route right to the Red Sea. The Red Sea, where they had a date with destiny. Where their impossible would be faced and their God would show up and do the impossible on their behalf. Where the power of the Almighty would cause the sea to stand on it’s ends and create a dry path right through the waters to safety. This is where God was leading them, and it was the long way round.