What Journey Are We On Today?
What journey are we on today?
May we journey with Jesus.
“It will be just a few days. It can be kept at bay. There will be some inconvenience, sure, but the world will merely be paused—just a short break, out of an abundance of caution, and certainly not any kind of major grinding to a halt. Certainly not for two years.” (“In America, a few days in March 2020 . . .” Ted Anthony)
Who are we after this, after two years of “just a short break”?
We withstood an uncertain crisis, and that is where we find ourselves—when a crisis hits.
When cancer strikes.
When death comes to our homes.
When a breakage occurs within our families.
When jobs are lost and change knocks on our front door.
When life as we have come to know suddenly takes a turn and waking to a “something new to deal with” creates a life-altering “something I wish God would take away” on the dawn of a new day.
On this second Sunday of Lent, we find ourselves looking at Jesus, at his journey toward the cross. He prepares His disciples for his death and He prepares those who will encounter persecution and struggles for declaring to the world they are His. He prepares us today, each day, for this same reality. Jesus loves you. Jesus loves me. As the Father, he sustains us and provides for our needs; As the Son, the Savior of the world, Jesus provides the Way to know the Father and the Way to walk in relationship with Him; & as the Holy Spirit, He provides us leading and conviction and guidance and hope.
Jesus loves you.
Jesus loves me.
Jesus loves all the little children of the world.
Jesus knows our struggles because He is God and He is Son and He is Spirit.
Jesus knows us. &
Jesus loves us.
Jesus knows what we have endured during these past two years and Jesus knows what we will endure next year & the year after next year.
Illness. Disease. Death. Loss. Pain. Struggle. Hunger. Despair. Agony. Jesus knows because He was there—on the cross of Calvary—dying for you and for me and for all the peoples of the world.
What journey are you on today?
What journey am I on today?
What journey are we on today?
May we see the truth of God, learning, growing, as we journey.
Adam journeyed toward the new land, away from the garden of paradise.
Abram journeyed toward the Promised Land.
Jacob’s son, Joseph journeyed toward a different home, one where he served another.
David journeyed toward the promised kingship.
Daniel journeyed toward captivity and away from his homeland.
Mary journeyed toward motherhood, even when she did not quite understand all the details.
Joseph, the husband of Mary, journeyed toward a new place, where there would be no room for his child to be born.
The disciples journeyed toward obedience as they walked with the King of Kings.
Peter journeyed toward Jesus when he was called to leave his nets and follow.
Saul, the persecutor, journeyed toward salvation, toward the newness of life as the Apostle Paul.
So many journeyed toward God.
So many journeyed toward a newness of life.
So many journeyed toward something new, toward a peace that surpasses all.
What journey are we on—today?
God created us for connection, for relationship.
Could it be that someone we know is walking a journey today, and could it be that they need us to walk along, beside them, praying with them, as they journey?
May we journey with Jesus.
May we journey with Jesus during this season of Lent, keeping our eyes upon His cross.
May we journey with Jesus.
May we journey toward spiritual maturity.
May we journey toward the eternal home where we will reside forevermore with God.
May we journey within the leading of the Holy Spirit, walking the way He would have us go.
May we journey with Jesus. May we walk with Him. May we follow close beside Him as He goes with us along the path of life. May we sense His presence, sustaining us, as we go.
May we journey with Jesus.
The Bible promises us so much truth. SEE WITH ME.
“Just at that time, some Pharisees approached, saying to Him, “Go away, leave here, for Herod wants to kill You.”
And He said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I reach My goal.’
Nevertheless I must journey on today and tomorrow and the next day; for it cannot be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it!
Behold, your house is left to you desolate; and I say to you, you will not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!’ “
(Luke 13: 31-35)