Knowing Where I Am Going

The Eastern European Missions (EEM) dinner was last night. They know where they are going. They want to take others with them. They are like Abraham.

Abraham was confidently looking forward to a city with eternal foundations, a city designed and built by God. -Hebrews 11:10 (ESV)

I too want to view that Holy City one of these days.

There is a song from my youth that goes:

I want to view that Holy City
Oh I want to view that Holy City one of these days, Halleluiah
I want to view that Holy City
I want to view that Holy City one of these days
Oh yeah.

I want to sit at the welcome table...
I want to feast on milk and honey...
I want to sing and never get tired...
I want to meet my lovely Jesus...

How many immigrants sacrificed to make it to the country called the United States of America to find hope, a better life and a future for their families? They were pilgrims, some who died along the way facing the new land. But they died facing the new land. Were they angry, frustrated, grumblers? I don't know. I know that when I hear their stories in documentaries they mention difficulties without those difficulties defining the outcome. Once they reached the promised land, the troubles were gone. Were there troubles in the new land? Yes. But what they went through to get to the new land prepared most of them better for the troubles they encountered in the land of hope.

Those of us seeking God will find ourselves in His new land one day. We are encountering troubles along the way, but when we reach that land, we will have no trouble. While we don't have the details of what our life will be, just like the immigrants coming to America, we still press on because we know it will be better than the best we find in this temporary land we must leave some day. In fact, there will be no trouble in the new land. God has promised it to be so. I can't claim to fully understand how this will be so, but I have faith that God's word is truth.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; 
and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, 
nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: 
for the former things are passed away.
-Revelation 21:4 (KJV)

The hymn "Higher Ground" comes to mind:

I’m pressing on the upward way,
New heights I’m gaining every day;
Still praying as I onward bound,
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.

I found a video when looking up the lyrics for Higher Ground. I don't know these precious people, but hope to meet them someday.

Let's find others to take with us on this magnificent journey.

In each word, each thought, each trial and success may I never forget I must be knowing where I am going.