The Destination DOES Matter!

    A thief in Orem, Utah, discovered an important principle: Know where you are going before you commit the crime.
    When John White flagged down a policeman to ask for directions, the officer noted that the man matched the description of someone accused of stealing two phones from a nearby convenience store, and the address White wanted turned out to be the same one the officer was checking.
    The address had been left on a slip of paper the thief left at a gas station, according to a March 26, 2010, AP story. The man was arrested when the officer found he had both phones, along with a small amount of marijuana.
    I’m assuming you are not planning on committing any crimes in the near future, but it is pretty important to know where you are going with whatever your plans are.
    Sometimes you may even think you know where you are going but because you were relying on the wrong source of information, you ended up in the wrong place. That happened to me twice in the last couple of months. Did you know that Google maps is not ALWAYS accurate? Two months ago, Google sent me to the wrong city! I later checked to see what address I had typed in and I entered all the information correctly. Yet I was sent to a completely different street in a town some fifteen miles away from where I was trying to go. In another incident, I was sent to the wrong address on the wrong street.
    Where are you going and do you know how you are going to get there? Are you sure? Can you trust the directions you are following?
    I’ve spoken to too many apparently successful men who have confided in me that while they had reached the top of their corporate ladder, once they got there they began to believe they had it leaning against the wrong building.
    Just moving along and making progress in life may keep you occupied and perhaps even mesmerized for a while. But ending up where you want to go depends on whether or not you started with the right goal and then trusted in reliable directions to get there.
    The right goal? Is there such a thing? When you consider that God made every one of us for a purpose, anything that we pour our lives into outside of that purpose will eventually leave us feeling lost, a long way from where we want to be.
    God made you for Him. And while we have all been separated from enjoying His presence through the problem of sin, He has clearly mapped out for us the way back. Living for anything outside of that, will only broaden the gap between us and while it may provide a bit of fun and diversion for a while, it will eventually lead us to emptiness and despair. And there are a lot of false promises of fulfillment through self-help techniques, they can be a bit like google maps when their information is a bit off. But I can promise you this, God’s Word will not let you down!
    Do you know where you are going? Do you know how to get there? Jesus said this, “I am the way, the truth, and the light. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).