what’s your destination?

We’re all going places.  We all have a destination in mind.  Me?  I dream about Hawaii or visiting the Holy Land or taking my kids to the Grand Canyon.

Today,  I’m thinking about life destinations.  Where am I going in my life?  I think it changes over time.  Right now, these are some of the destinations I’m looking ahead to:

• The delivery of my son before June 1, 2009.
• Financial freedom
• Celebrating my 14th wedding anniversary on March 11th with joy and passion.
• The day that my younger daughter finally gets a B (or better) on her applied spelling test.
• The future (unknown) ministry that God is preparing me for.

How am I going to get there?  I know that I won’t arrive without God’s help.  I do have choices when it comes to life destination transportation, and I choose to be led by my Father God. Listen to what He told the Israelites after he had led them out of their slavery in Egypt:

“You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings…”   Exodus 19:4

God wants to carry me to my next destination.  He wants to carry me on eagles’ wings. How effortlessly I will arrive if I choose to let Him swoop me up and bear my burdens.  The catch is, He has His own destination in mind. Read the rest of the verse:

“…how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.”

He wants to bring me closer to Him.  We are always focused on getting to the other side of our trial.  Making it through the current test.  Arriving in the land of plenty.  Being released from slavery to something. We have our eye on a destination that is probably directly linked to our personal comfort.  He has His eye on a destination directly linked to our transformation and more intimacy with Him.

I ought to let Him choose my destination. Not just ask Him to get me where I want to go.  How often does my destination of choice take me farther from Him rather than to Him?