RE-ORIENTING
Those who may feel stuck, or have taken a detour, or who are entering a new phase of the journey, a new season of life.
Look at the maps at the back of your Bible that show Paul’s missionary journeys – no straight lines. Paul zigzagged all over the world. “If you read the account of his travels in the book of Acts, you discover that some of Paul’s destinations were planned. But many of them weren’t even on the itinerary."
“Few things are as disorienting as in-between times – between jobs, between relationships, or between a rock and a hard place. But nothing rattles the cage like a bad diagnosis, a pink slip, or divorce papers. They cause the compass needle to spin. And we feel lost because our plans and our lives fall apart. But the upside is that it causes us to seek God with a raw intensity that cannot be manufactured any other way. Disorientation has a way of driving us to our knees. And that is one reason why the bad things that happen to us can actually turn into the best things that happen to us.” - Mark Batterson
