Coming back from the shops this morning I of course forgot that the road is closed. Because we are on auto pilot when we are coming home arne't we? The car knows the way, the brain is partly disengaged. Thankfully I remembered just after Id turned off the dual carriageway and then had to decide which route would be best to get me back in the shortest time.
Ive lived round here for fifteen years, but today I found a road Id not been on before. It was interesting - took me down a teeny lane with only room for one car, past some farms and a couple of amazing newly built country-retreat type houses and it joined up with a road I know well not far from home.
I felt God talking to me about diversions and road closures.
Sometimes our way ahead is blocked. We know we are heading in the right direction, we might even know our destination - and yet all of a sudden we come to a halt. Something stops our smooth onward journey and we have to backtrack and find another way. It can be incredibly annoying and frustrating. It can make us lose heart and doubt we were on the right road in the first place. We might take our eyes off Jesus - who is THE WAY- and try to work out our own way to get through the roadblock. But today I think God was telling me that sometimes the diversion is a good thing. It can take us to places we would not otherwise have been and teach us things along the way. And God will always bring us back onto the road again further along. Destination eternity.
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