We need to be willing to leave our comfort, to find our TRUE destiny…
(Picture by Lisa R.)

Today I was blessed with free time. It was a beautiful day so I took my bible, my camera, and my math study guide and went to the park. It was a breezy and surprising cool 76 degrees in South Florida. At the park during my alone time, God answered some questions and dealt with my heart. He took me to the book of Jeremiah chapters 42 and 43 to be exact. It is the Story of Johanan and the nation of Judah. They sought out Jeremiah the prophet asking him to go to God on their behalf, they wanted God to tell them where to go and what to do. They pledged to do whatever God said whether it was pleasing or not. However, God’s answer was exactly opposite of what they wanted to hear. Therefore, they decided the answer was not from God. Ouch! That’s me! I have been praying to God asking Him for guidance and direction, but the answer that He is giving is not what I want to hear. So in my human wisdom I decided it couldn’t be God. As the realism of my hypocrisy hit my heart, I looked around at my surrounds and had another revelation: The water was flowing, the birds where chirping. The wind was blowing and the trees where dancing and swaying in the blowing breeze. They were all doing exactly what they were created to do, BUT… I was not. Oddly today’s moment of self discovery was not painful (despite the previous ouch), God gently reminded me that He had a plan for me and if I wanted to achieve it I had to be more like the birds and the trees, and less like Johanan and Judah. I needed to leave my Egypt and live in my Judah (read the chapters it’ll make sense then).

“May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with everything the Lord your God sends you to tell us. Whether it is favorable or unfavorable, we will obey the Lord our God, to whom we are sending you, so that it will go well with us, for we will obey the Lord our God” (Jeremiah 42:5-6).

So what’s the plan for the journey? I am going to obey whether it is favorable or not.