Are We There Yet?

Are we there yet? How much longer? Really!? I can't wait that long! I'm bored! I don't wanna wait any more! (insert whiny voice here)  Any of this sound familiar? If you've ever taken a road trip with kids you know these are standard questions considering most kids don't understand how long it really takes to get to your destination.

Lately, I find myself questioning if I am really supposed to continue with ministry. Did I misinterpret God's calling on my life?


Tonight, after one of my self questioning sessions I opened my bible up to a devotional for Isaiah 35:1-10 entitled just that "Are We There Yet?" As I read the scripture and the devotional it hit me that this is what I have been doing to God. WOW! He must be shaking his head at me going, "You silly child have you no patience or faith in me?"


I have become that child again. Asking God, "Are we there yet?" or "How much longer do we have till we get there?" or "Why is it taking so long!?" Not trusting that God knows what he is doing with my life.  I need to begin fully trusting God again. He does know what he is doing with my life. He would not send me down the wrong path for my life.  God has me on a spiritual journey and I need to sit back and let him have control of the wheel and navigate my life again.  

There are a few things in this devotional that jumped out at me.  Many times scripture calls our lives spiritual journeys. 
1.  In Hebrews 12:12-13 Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. Make level paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.  Now when I read this I began to think of how weak I have felt spiritually lately. I have not been in the word as I should be, I have slacked on my bible study, my prayer journal has not been used even though I have still been praying (when I use my journal I am much more intentional about talking with God not to God and listening to Him.) I feel this scripture is calling me to strengthen what I have allowed to go weak in me.  

2.  Jeremiah 31:21  "Set up road signs; put up guideposts.  Take note of the highway, the road that you take."  Some stretches of our spiritual roads are straight and smooth while some have potholes of habitual sin, a time of distance from God, or other difficulties that make our road tough to travel


3.  Isaiah 40:3  A voice of one calling: "in the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. To me this is saying to stay the path and continue to make the way for God to work.


In wondering if I was on the right path I ran across this:


"Spiritually speaking, we are on a path that is leading somewhere but how do we know if we are on the highway of holiness in our journey?"  Romans is filled with signposts referred to as the "Roman Road," and the direction they point ends with this promise: Romans 10:9 "If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."  When it comes to our final destination, none of us is "there yet," but we have God's Word to lead us in the right direction.


"I don't know where the long and winding road is leading you, but I do know this: if you remember passing Calvary, you're on the right road" --Patsy Clairmont