Praise the Lord
for this day, the last Monday of July. It feels as if I was in India just few
days ago. I am grateful to Jesus for the way He blessed me through so many
people that love Him and serve Him. I have vivid and sweet memories of those
divine encounters and transactions. Praise the Lord for all the affirmations
and affections He bestowed on me lavishly. It was not a trip. It was a Holy
Adventure. I am ever so grateful to Jesus, the Lord of our journeys and the
Lord of the Eternal City and our Eternal Home.
In his book, The Image — A Guide to Pseudo-Events in
America, Daniel Boorstin points out that over the past century and a
half people have moved from being travelers to becoming tourists. The Old
English noun “travel” was originally the same word at “travail” — trouble, work,
torment. For centuries, to travel was to submit to a certain kind of torture,
to do something tough. This began to change in the
middle of the 19th century, when someone with and entrepreneurial spirit came up
with the idea of marketing travel as an adventure. Thus was born the tour.
Legend has it that the very first tour took place in 1838. A group of people
from Wadebridge, England, traveled by special train to the nearby village of
Bodmin. There they had the fun of watching the hanging of two killers. Since
the Bodmin gallows was in clear view of the uncovered station, the tourists had
their adventure without even needing to leave their open railway
carriages.
To live on purpose
we need to learn the difference between being a tourist in life — going only
where it’s convenient and comfortable, and a traveler — one who determines his
or her own way in life and will get there even if it means blazing a new trail.
One reason why so many people try to climb Mt. Everest is that they want to push
themselves and do something that makes them feel alive. It is also possible for
us to push ourselves in moral, spiritual, and relational areas. Joshua, the Old
Testament leader, for instance, challenged his people to choose their purpose in
life and to stay with it. He said to them, “If serving the LORD seems
undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve….
But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD” (Joshua
24:15). Joshua refused to merely exist. He chose to
live. May Jesus our Lord through the power of the Holy Spirit anoint us that we
might live well today. May He propel each of us to live our life as an
adventure with a divine purpose.
In Christ, our
Eternal Contemporary and our Eternal Companion.
Brown
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