Do you remember your last road trip? Did you pack your bags, plan your stops, and maybe even fill a cooler with cold soda and snacks for the road? Do you recall long hours of conversation or singing along to the radio? Perhaps you played your favorite road games with your kids in the back seat? A road trip is much more than just a distance you travel to reach your destination; it’s an opportunity to enjoy the journey, to make an adventure with friends or family.
Our lives are like a road trip. In life, we set our eyes on a goal or a destination, but maybe equally important is the journey of life along the way and the people we choose to live it with. Our spiritual journey is just the same. There are many landmarks along the way and many people who journey along side us. We ultimately reach our destination when our life on this earth ends (and our life in the next world begins).
What goes on between now and that moment is an adventure, but an adventure of which God wants to be part. God designed us to live and learn and grow. But real spiritual growth is firmly rooted in Him. It requires a foundation of God’s Word and prayer, and it is spurred on by the work of the Holy Spirit along side a community of believers.
Sometimes life’s road trip is full of wonderful and fulfilling moments and sometimes our spiritual journeys are more difficult than expected, full of unexpected turns and hills to climb. But our spiritual journey should be a process that brings us closer and closer to God, celebrating in the good times and learning from the bad times.
Paul wrote a letter to the Church in Ephesus, and ultimately to all churches, sketching out a road map to help us make the spiritual journey from grace to glory. If we follow God’s Word and learn to live out His will for our lives, our experience will surely be full of unexpected adventure, unwavering hope, conditional love, and unlimited power in Christ.
This is your Road Map. Let the journey begin.
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