Where Am I?

If you believe in the providence of God, then in everything that happens to us you know there are many waystations and God’s ultimate, final destination and rest. Wisdom teaches us which are which. Consider each and everything that happens to you to be a waystation if you find yourself despairing and anxious for surely that is not Father’s end for us. Some languish at these stops in unbelief and weariness, but let those stops, by faith and wisdom, give rise in hope as we run to Father for deliverance! On the other hand, do not consider a happy stop waystation to be Father’s end for you either because such stops are seductions to tempt and to keep us from pursuing God’s true end and purpose. Indeed, Father’s end in all things is neither a mournful depression nor a giddy ecstasy. Father’s end is a peaceful rest, with periodic shouts of praise on earth, eternal in heaven!