A Journey or a Destination?

When you think about life, have you focused on a particular destination, or do you consider it a journey with many destinations, but no end? This is not a trick question, in fact how you answer it determines what kind of life you will have.

The prophet said:

He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end. Ecclesiastes 3:11 (AMP)

As we read this scripture, what jumps out to me is that “he has also planted eternity ( a sense of divine purpose) in the human heart…” While I will not pretend I understand all the implications found in this verse, I will say that this tells me that this life we are living does not die; rather, it is elongated to a time period called “eternity”. Therefore, trying to “comprehend or grasp what God has done”, or even what He is doing on a day-to-day basis is beyond my pay grade. Thus, I conclude, life is not a destination with a fixed end, it is a journey with many destinations that I might not fully ever realize, or at least until God reveals His secrets to me.

While this may have caused me to be unsettled about this at one point in my life, it no longer does. I have come to the place where I realize that God is too big for me to figure out what He is doing, for He is always working on multiple projects and multiple people in their lives at the same time He is working with my situation, and He issues me assignments to fulfill His plan:

And may you, having been [deeply] rooted and [securely] grounded in love, 18be fully capable of comprehending with all the saints (God’s people) the width and length and height and depth of His love [fully experiencing that amazing, endless love]; 19and [that you may come] to know [practically, through personal experience] the love of Christ which far surpasses [mere] knowledge [without experience], that you may be filled up [throughout your being] to all the fullness of God [so that you may have the richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself]. Ephesians 3:17b-18 (AMP)

When it comes right down to it, we don’t need to know either the destination or the journey when we understand what is “the width and length and height and depth of God’s love“. For that love will always do what is best for us and through us… Just being “completely filled and flooded with God Himself” is enough to make our day and to make our life.

Maria