On our way to celebrate Memorial Day with some friends, my daughter and I found our usual route blocked by a parade. I backed up and took an alternate route, to which my daughter responded, “Daddy, this is not the way!” I told her she needed to trust that we would get there, even though she didn’t know where we were at the time. As soon as we had circumvented the parade and returned to our regular route, she delightedly proclaimed, “You were right, this is the way.”
I was reminded of riding in the car with my dad when I was a boy. It was a little scary to me to look out the car windows and realize that I did not know where we were. But I trusted that my dad knew where he was going and I was always relieved and delighted when I finally recognized our surroundings.
Jesus instructs us to have childlike faith and I think I was blessed to have been spoken to by the Holy Spirit that day in the car with my daughter. God has many purposes for us and we don’t always know where He is leading us or what those purposes are, but we are assured that His purposes are good. Even when the route is strange, we can trust that He has a good destination in mind for us. Great is our delight when we finally reach that destination and great is the glory God receives for leading us there.
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