My family and I have gone on a few vacations now together in a large group. We have gone with at least 3 households at a time. We don’t all leave at the same time and many times we may start from different locations. We all eventually end up on the same road as we get nearer the destination.
Often one group would call the other and let them know about something ahead of them. It may be a site that you want them to see or a road hazard. Sometimes you may get advice on the roads to travel or avoid because the others had been this way before.
It can be this way in living for God. I’ve heard people say, “I am nowhere near as far along as they are.” Or maybe, “they are so far beyond me.”
Do not forget, we’re all headed to the same place. The destination is Heaven, though we all may be at different places on our journey. We may have all started at different places in life and have different life experiences. You don’t know that you won’t have an experience that will help one of those people that is “farther along the path,” than you. They may have advice for you. We all are sharing with each other to reach our destination together. Just like our family vacations, we wanted to make sure that everyone made it to our destination.
Don’t be disheartened by your place on the path, be encouraged that you have found the path and that you are on the path. Be encouraged that other travelers on the path are ready and willing to help you.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 WEB
9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.
Matthew 7:14 ISV How narrow is the gate and how constricted is the road that leads to life, and there aren’t many people who find it!”
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