✝ Daily Encouragement (10/4/23) "Knowing Where We’re Going"
Published: Wed, 10/04/23
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![]() Home Archives About Us ![]() ![]() Wednesday, October 4, 2023
"Knowing Where
We’re Going"
Message
summary:
Knowing where we are going and the way to
get there is important for any journey. This of course is vitally true in regard to our eternal destination. Through Christ we can know where and the way to where we are going.
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“Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?” (John 14:5). ![]()
My dad would take us kids in to the old Municipal Stadium in Kansas City where the Kansas City Athletics played in the sixties (before moving to Oakland). I recall the special excitement when the Yankees were
in town. Kansas City was often referred to as the Yankee’s farm team since they snapped up our better players!
Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris both played in Kansas
City.
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Yogi Berra was known for his colorful wit often revealed in short pithy statements known as yogisms. Let me share several today for your
edification:
But he has one that prompts a spiritual message today. “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” How true!
In John 14 we have one of the most familiar teachings of Jesus to His disciples beginning with these words, “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. And you know the way where I am going” (John 14:1-4).
But amazing to us was that the disciples didn’t know!
"Thomas said to Him, 'Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?'”
(John 14:5).
Knowing where we are going and the way to get there is important for any journey. This of course is vitally true in regard to our eternal destination. In the section of Scripture in which our daily texts are found the disciples had asked two questions: “Lord, where are You going?” Peter asked in John 13:36. “Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?” Thomas asked in John 14:5. ![]() He gave this word of direction and assurance as He was preparing His disciples for the climactic events over the next several days. He knew their hearts were troubled. However His words are very applicable to any situation or trouble that His followers all through the ages deal with. Let us again hear these solemn words from our Lord: “Do not let your hearts be troubled”. Just as Jesus knew all the events that would transpire for the disciples, He also knows the events that will unfold in our lives. He will lead us through the perplexing mazes of life as we keep our focus centered on Christ who is “The Way”. He will reveal to us that which we need to know when we need to know it, though our full understanding may not come at the same time, just as we saw with the disciples. Above all He offers “peace of heart” in the midst of troubling circumstances because His followers know where they are going and the way to get there. “Trust in God; trust also in Me", Jesus said. The key to having peace in our heart in the midst of trouble is to keep our trust and focus on the Lord. Today we pray that trust and assurance will flood your heart so that you will be filled with the peace that even transcends understanding as through Christ we can know the way to where we are going. The antidote for a fearful heart is a trusting heart. “O for grace to trust Him more!”
Be encouraged today,
(Hebrews 3:13)
Stephen & Brooksyne
Weber
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Yesterday in musing on the message about Jezebel, a wife who incited her
husband to do evil I wrote that I recalled another wife in the Bible who sought to restrain her husband from doing evil but failed. That would be Pilate's wife!
![]() Even in his later years he demonstrated his remarkable communication skills. Civic leaders in Charlotte, North Carolina invited him to a luncheon in his honor. He initially hesitated to accept the invitation because he struggled with Parkinson’s disease. But the Charlotte leaders said, “We don’t expect a major address. Just come and let us honor you.” So he agreed. After wonderful things were said about him, he stepped to the podium, looked at the crowd, and said,
“I’m reminded today of a story concerning Albert Einstein, the great physicist. Einstein was once traveling from Princeton on a train when the conductor came down the aisle, punching the tickets
of every passenger.
When he came to Einstein, Einstein reached in his vest pocket. He couldn’t find his ticket so he reached in his trouser pockets. It wasn’t there. He looked in his briefcase but couldn’t find it. Then he looked in the seat beside him. He still couldn’t find it. The conductor said, ‘Dr. Einstein, I know who you are. We all know who you are. I’m sure you bought a ticket. Don’t worry about it.’ Einstein nodded appreciatively. The conductor continued down the aisle punching tickets. As he was ready to move to the next car, he turned around and saw the great physicist down on his hands and knees looking under his seat for his ticket. The conductor rushed back and said, ‘Dr. Einstein, Dr. Einstein, don’t worry, I know who you are; no problem. You don’t need a ticket. I’m sure you bought one.’ Einstein looked at him and said, ‘Young man, I too, know who I am. What I don’t know is where I’m going.’” Having said that Billy Graham continued, “See the suit I’m wearing? It’s a brand new suit. My children and my grandchildren are telling me I’ve gotten a little slovenly in my old age. I used to be a bit more fastidious. So I went out and bought a new suit for this luncheon and one more occasion. You know what that occasion is? This is the suit in which I’ll be buried. But when you hear I’m dead, I don’t want you to immediately remember the suit I’m wearing. I want you to remember this: I not only know who I am. I also know where I’m going.”
Today's Suggested Music and Supplemental
Resources
"I Am The Way To The Father (John 14:6 & 10:2-4)" Watch video on YouTube Faithful Heart
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