I wish we were guaranteed that the road paved for our destiny was a -6-laner high speed, straight forward … smile it aint! Interestingly, this road may have some pot holes, speed bumps, speed limits and even detours. My encouragement to you this this week is to embrace the detours; if you are walking the God assigned destiny, the detours will still lead to your destiny!
Matthew 2:19-23 is a perfect example –So Joseph got up, took the child (Jesus) and his mother and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that Achelous was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, Joseph withdrew to the district of Galilee, and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets, that Jesus would be called a Nazarene
Like with Jesus above, destiny was that He was to be called a Nazarene, so although Joseph set for Judea, his trigger resulted in God’s warning to detour to Nazareth in order for the prophesies to be fulfilled that Jesus would come from Narezeth.
Is God directly you to detour? Do you hear that small voice warning you not to proceed yet, to hold off yet, to change the course yet, put your brakes on, and follow an alternative route instead? You may call that small voice ‘something”, others call it ‘”instinct” I call Him the Holy Spirit.
From experience, God assigned detours are normally for your protection, to teach you something or to mature you in a certain area. This week, reflect and reevaluate your detours. Are you in one now, embrace it? Have you just be been redirected, ask God to show you why and what you need to gain from it. And also celebrate these; destiny speed bumps, speed limits, and detours are all working for your good (Romans 8:28). That the purposes of God in you and God’s prophesies (word) concerning you aka DESTINY are fulfilled!
Cheer up, it’s all good!