I’ve always observed how our journey with God is like one big adventure. Where I live, in the mountains, hiking in the mountains is adventurous but you basically know you go up, up, up, til you get to the top. Then it’s down, down, down. Sometimes there are false summits that lead you to believe you are at the top when you are not. So you keep walking. Or sometimes there is snow and hail to contend with. So you stop, regroup, add layers, then you keep walking. There may be game trails that look like the regular trail that can lead you off track. Hiking in the desert is a different experience as you can start at a high point, but immediately head down, then up, then down then up. And down again. Sometimes a trail doesn’t show well on the ground, so to mark the way there are small piles of rocks called cairns that are placed to lead you to your destination. Cairns are tricky because you usually can’t see too many at one time. Most times you can only see one. When you get to it you then you can see another. Eventually you are going along until you get to a cairn and can’t find another. At that point you have to stop and look around. It may be that your natural instinct would take you in one direction but the cairn is in the opposite direction. Sometimes it takes a while to find the next cairn, everything looks like a pile of rocks, or maybe nothing looks like a pile of rocks. You have to stop to find the right way to go. When you spot the next pile you move towards it. Sometimes you need another set of eyes, at a taller height, to help you find a hidden cairn.
That is our adventure with God, we move along following, until we lose our direction, we stop and scout out the next direction. Which way is God leading? Sometimes we need another set of eyes to help us find the next direction of God’s leading. It’s easy to get off track if we keep going on our own accord. With God we never know what’s ahead, we can’t see it all. If we get off track, we have to backtrack to get back to the last known cairn, then we may have to wait until we get our direction from God. I think God likes to switch it up, he shows us a direction, changes our direction, makes us look for a while to find the next direction. That keeps us connected to Him. Following God is an adventure. Back to Gods economy next week.
