FAITH CAPSULE: On your journey, it could be that you are yet to face challenges or you are already facing challenges.

Exodus 13:17-22
 
To those that went on the journey of the wilderness, it must have been as if the journey would never come to an end. Are you feeling the same on your journey of life? Do you question when all the confronting challenges will be over? On the journey of life, challenges will not be over, neither shall they go away, but the grace that is available is more than enough to make you grow over challenges. The issue of challenges cannotbe spelled out better than inPsalm 34:19, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.” God always honors His word and He will not fail to perform it. Interestingly enough for the children of Israel, the Lord led them through the safest route. It was a route that avoided war with the forces of the enemy when they were not yet ready; a route that would prevent them from becoming captive at the hands of enemy. It was a route that took them from going back for the worst. Does that speak of your present route? Above all, God led them through a route where there would have been no reason for them to go back into the captivity of Egypt. Exodus 13:17-18, “Then it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt. So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.” In their deliverance from entering a war route, they turned on to the war of complaint and disobedience against the One that led them from bondage. The children of Israel could have taken the worst route, but they did not recognize it. As a result, they were unable to acknowledge what God had done as they turned to complaining and disobedience.
On your journey, your situation could be much worse right now, consider yourself blessed and keep on trusting God. On your journey, it could be that you are yet to face challenges or you are already facing challenges. The truth is that challenges will come to make you up and not to break you up if you do not complain. Turn your face to the grace and mercy of God that will carry you through.Today, encourage yourself in the Lord; let it be clear to you that God will get you to where He is taking you if you do not step out of His command.

Prayer for today: Ask for deliverance from every agent of distraction in the journey of life.