Holy Expedition

Holy Expedition

Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have their hearts on pilgrimage. 

Psalm 84:5 NIV

By choice a person can live in a state of blessing or of destruction. If a man chooses to live by his own counsel, by his own power, does all of this without God, he is, even if he is wealthy and healthy, cursed. Ignoring the Lord will be his undoing. But if a man were to trust God and make a daily pilgrimage to Him in his heart, then he is blessed, that is, fully satisfied in God.

The blessing that God wants to give each person is a settled mind. We were once at war with God in our minds. We proved that we were struggling with God by the things we did with our bodies and how we resisted Him in our thoughts (Colossians 1:21). But now, we are blessed. Now we have been reconciled and settled in our minds because we hope in Christ! When we walk with God we are always in the process of removing our sin stained clothes and exchanging them for holy clothes, for righteousness. He is always leading us, whether into teaching times or into grace, or into a dark valley or into freedom; He is always preparing us for good works and for eternity.

It is peculiar how many of us are on a path to find something in God, not realizing that the real gift is that of proximity. Our blessing is not having done this thing or that thing in the Lord’s service. The real blessing is to have done this thing or the other with God at our side. The expedition is not the blessing or the service per se; it is having lived side-by-side with the creator of the Universe. He is our great expedition.