I had the pleasure of spending an unexpected hour and a half at Birmingham New Street station. What should have been a 4 1/2 hour journey ended up taking 6 hours! Bad times!
However, in that extra hour at Birmingham i started thinking about journeys. There are far too many easy and cliched analogies that i could draw, and il try to avoid them in writing this. Im sure that each of us has recently been on a journey of some kind. I travelled from Exeter, back home to Shrewsbury to see my parents new puppy! (pictures below)
Sitting on the floor on the concourse watching people rushing for the trains reminded me that each of us is on our own journey. We all started somewhere and were all heading somewhere. What happens to us is what changes us and moulds us as people. Jesus and his disciples did quite a lot of travelling. All the way through each gospel, the disciples are on the move. Maybe thats just the way Jesus did things or perhaps its because the journeys changed them.
Our faith is not a static one. Being a Christian is not a call to sit still at the feet of Jesus, its a lifelong call to follow him. To learn from him as he is on the move. God has called us on journeys with him and on those journeys we will learn about him, we will be changed by him.
My life has changed radically in the past few weeks. All part of the journey i am on. It has been painful and tough. There have been times when i would have preferred a static God where nothing would change, but thats not what he has called me to.
When Jesus called a few fisherman, he said follow me. Thats what he says to us to. Not just “follow me” as in twitter but to actually journey and change. To let God see us at our best and our worst.
Wherever you are on that journey right now, God is with you. He IS with you. He is changing you and shaping you. And he’s calling you on. Next time you take a long journey, perhaps reflect upon where God has brought you so far and allow him to speak to you about where’s next.
And finally as promised and quick pic of Holly (shes adorable)
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