Life Is a Journey

Life Is a Journey

Life is a journey. For Adam and Eve, it began when God created them in the Garden of Eden. But that journey took a sudden and calamitous detour when they sinned by disobeying God. They had to leave that beautiful place. Their journey was one of going from paradise to banishment from paradise.

Abraham left his homeland also, but he left willingly because he obeyed God and God told him to go.

Moses had to flee his homeland because he killed a man. Then he had to leave the refuge he found to go back to Egypt and lead the poeple out of slavery. The Israelites had to leave Egypt then as well, but they were promised a better land, a land flowing with milk and honey. But they complained about their hardships and wanted to go back to slavery in Egypt!. So they were turned away from the promised land. They had looked back instead of forward.

Jesus and Moses, however, looked forward. Jesus said to remember Lot's wife (Lk. 17:32). I say, remember not only Lot's wife but all these things, all these journeys. For you are on a journey also; we all are: from life to death--and if we believe in Jesus, from death to life eternal.

Don't look back. You're not going that way.