Where Am I?

If you believe in the sovereignty and providence of God, then you know there are many way-stations that we’ll stop at before we’ll arrive at God’s final destination: Eternal Rest. With maturity, wisdom teaches us we must be patient. Our arrival is a matter of God’s appointed day. Unfortunately, some professed believers don’t actually move away from themselves, which is their departing station. Some do, others slowly. If I consider each and every stop I’ve stopped, I can’t tell you how many times I pulled into a far too familiar self-serve way-station. Once, when I saw an old friend of mine passing by – a friend I hadn’t seen in five years – he pointed out that what he heard from me was a complaint I shared five years earlier! Talk about a stunted growth, where ‘self’ and a mischievous heart played the stunt! Who said the heart was most deceitfully wicked? – especially thinking that I’ve forgiven someone I never expected to see again? 

Still, others find themselves pulling up at the Happy Stop Way-station, get off, and decide not to immediately reboard. I’ve been there. If God’s love, and my calling and election was not sure, I would’ve remained at the Happy Stop. (Well, as long as it remained happy, which it never does.) Other travelers? Well, some languish at the way-stations of Unbelief and Weariness. I could come up with other way-names, but that would sound too Bunyanesque. Let me just say – if we are saved, then we’ll reach God’s promised final destination. Why? Only because his choosing and election is sure – made long before I was born, and given his sovereignty, and the immutability of his decisions, I can only stand in awe of such a wondrous love! Thank God – if we are his – we will reach final destination. If not, may God, in his common grace, grant you many Happy Stops along the way for those will be your only cheer before reaching the final, and most ruinous station: Judgment.