A lot of us focus on goals so much that we don’t take a moment to take-in the journey.
The journey is experienced as we live through life, the lessons life teaches us, the changes we undergo as we live.
What usually happens is that, as we pursue things, we fail to focus on what matters. Enjoying and nurturing relationships like family, friends.
I am definitely not asking you to put off your pursuit, you know me better than that, am all for chasing your dream. What am saying is that while at it, don’t overlook the things and people that matter.
We also have this mentality in ministry too. We want to achieve things ‘for the Lord’, and as a result, we fail in our relationship with Him. We are engaged in activities ‘for the Lord’ and forget that the end of this dispensation is relationship with His Son as His wife.
When we maintain a healthy relationship WITH HIM (The Journey), we will achieve more FOR HIM (The Goal).
Because in the place of relationship, we know His heart, His will and He directs us on how to achieve it with so much ease:
In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. - Proverbs 3:6
We should learn not to sacrifice the goal for the journey, that is sacrificing the means for the end. When we do, the end never comes or is lost. Or even when we achieve it, it leaves a bitter taste in our mouth.
God was so concerned about the journey that He said a lot about it, when He gave us the Great Commission, we tend to over look the last part of it.
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. AND BEHOLD, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, TO THE END OF THE AGE.” - Matthew 28:20
The greatest task given us, ended with a reminder of an enduring relationship. We usually focus on the task and overlook the relationship. But from that verse, you can see the journey and the goal are inter-twined together and inseparable. You can’t successfully achieve one without the other.
God longed for a relationship that’s one of the reasons He created man, when man cut himself from God through disobedience, God didn’t hesitate to reconnect man to Himself. He, through the sacrifice in the garden when he kill the animal and shed blood, improvised a temporary measure to at least maintain a relationship - Without the shedding of blood there’s no remission of sin (Hebrews 8:22).
What God did in the garden is like receiving a temporary voters card or provisional driver’s license pending when the original one arrives. Because the temporal was issued by the government is also legal but it only lasts until you receive the permanent document.
This is exactly what the Law is to Grace.
What sacrifices of bulls is to Jesus’ death once and for all on the cross.
God loves us so much that He could not afford to lose our relationship with Him. So much so, He planned before the foundations of the earth; the ultimate solution to man’s fall. (Revelation 13:8)
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. - I John 4:10
For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways. - Psalms 91:11
Never forget even when the journey becomes tough He is always there with you:
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. - Psalm 23:4
‘Life is a journey’!
Think about that statement.
If life is a journey, then the journey is important because life is.
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See you at the next one!
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