The (crooked) Way 😕

Look at these beautiful buildings ahead.

To get to them, it looks like all I’ll have to do is drive straight, get to the next street, then turn in and park. Right?
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Wrong.
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This picture was taken in Parkview estate and those buildings are in Banana Island. As close as they appear, the way there is not straight ahead. In fact, the first step toward these buildings from where this picture was taken, is in the opposite direction.
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But how can that be?
How can it be that God gave you a promise and showed it to you SO CLEARLY, and now the directions to the promise are taking you in the opposite direction from it??
I mean, you can see it right in front of you. IT’S RIGHT THERE. You can almost touch it. And now, they’re saying you have to turn away from it in order to get to it?
That you have to be willing to •not• see it in order to get there...
that you have to turn your back away from it and head away from it, to get there...
That you have to let go in order to get close to it?
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it doesn’t make sense.
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When we use google maps, we understand that the route will lead to the destination even when it leads us away from it. Because we trust the satellite navigation system.
But when it comes to God, we fret. We worry. We ask if He’s lying to us. Did He trick us? Was it the devil? Maybe we didn’t really hear clearly...
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but Jesus said, “I Am the Way...”
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He leads us. He knows the expected end. He goes before us to make every crooked path straight.
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He shows us the promise to give us HOPE, knowing that the journey may lead us far away from the promise. But even when we’re stuck in the traffic of life and we can’t see anything about the promise manifesting in any way, we must hold on to our Hope - that picture He showed us at the start of the journey. Knowing that He can NOT lie, and that He can see obstacles we cannot see.
He knows the end and He is the Way. As long as we remain in Him, it is impossible to get lost or to miss our turn. He is our direction and our destination and we will get there.
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