Knowing Where You're Going

Whether it's in our daily everyday life or in our spiritual life, belief affects direction and knowing where you’re going is essential. Right? I rememeber the first time my husband and I drove in Chicago. No GPS to guide us - just some sloppy, hand-written directions. There's nothing worse than feeling lost and confused while driving, especially if you have been designated the "navigator." But how does feeling confident in where you’re headed affect the way you communicate?

Have you ever been in a car with your husband when he doesn’t know where he’s going? He wants you to believe he’s not lost, but it’s clear by the many turns and the tense feeling in the car that he really is. How do you communicate with him? And he with you? Not the best picture of marital bliss.

When you don’t have a sense of the destination, you don’t have confidence in your current location. And when you daily confidence is shaken, you find yourself living a life of haphazard circumstance. This often leads to the “it-was-meant-to-be” or the “I-can’t-fight-fate” mentality that believes not that a life yielded to God has purpose, but that life “is what it is” so why fight it. Once the victim stance takes hold, it is very difficult for someone to find their way back.

I had a friend who used to say, “I know that I know that I know.” When I first heard her say it, I thought that it was just one of those things that you say but don’t really know what it means. But after spending time with her and seeing how she allowed God to daily direct and lead her, I finally understood that statement: her level of knowing began in her mind, passed through her heart, her feelings and emotions, and rested in agreement with the Spirit of God within her.

Knowing – acknowledging, feeling, understanding, and perceiving – where you are headed is essential for daily peace and health. How deep does your understanding go of where, as a Christian, you are headed – in this life and the next? Do you acknowledge God’s providential hand in your life and perceive how His will works in your life? Do you care enough to find out?

Father-God, I desire to know that I know that I know not only where I’m headed after I die, but where I’m headed in the here and now.

Check out: Isaiah 48:17