We journey through life, our life here on earth doesn't last forever.
We are on a journey; a pilgrimage.
We are pilgrims.
A pilgrim is a traveler, a traveler on a long journey, usually to a holy place or a sacred place for spiritual or religious reasons.
We are pilgrims in life journeying to our place of sacred duty, spiritual assignment and God.
As travelers, all pilgrims do the job of navigating.
It comes with the territory of being on a journey.
Travelers navigate territories that are not familiar, they navigate danger, they take risks if necessary and do risk assessments often on the terrain they are on and intend to cross.
Their lives could depend on it, their well being demands they do so, and getting to their destination requires the skill of navigation.
You cannot separate the pilgrim from navigation and you cannot separate having to navigate from the pilgrim.
It goes to show that life requires navigating and our path is something we have to find and navigate.
This is the reason why guidance, direction and being led is so important in life!
Pilgrims often have a compass, which is a small device that gives them a sense of direction, shows them their coordinates and gives them confidence they are on the right track.
The modern equivalent of the compass is our satellite navigation systems we use in our cars, google maps on our phones, our global positioning systems (GPS).
Life is a spiritual journey we are on which requires us figuring out and working out many things and issues as we journey and progress.
In life, divine direction, divine guidance and divine leading is essential; they come in handy for us as the spiritual pilgrims we are.
The Spirit of the Lord, which is the Spirit of Jesus Christ not only lead, guides and directs like a compass or satellite navigating system does. He also divinely orchestrates our life and path making everything work together for our good and the benefit of the many who come in contact with us on our way.
Salvation is part of the experience of this spiritual journey.
We have been instructed "to work out our salvation with fear and trembling."
As we journey and look into our salvation, we are working it out by navigation it.
We navigate error, deception, spiritual traps, vain philosophies, fear, spiritual warfare and doubt that the enemy would use to defeat us.
We navigate human wisdom, demonic wisdom, and spiritual traps.
We navigate darkness and come to light, we navigate folly and find heavenly wisdom, we navigate the counterfeit and embrace truth, we navigate past that which is false, to discover and discern that which is authentic.
We navigate past the things that would entangle to come into the perfect liberty of the Lord.
We navigate past lack to come into surplus, that we may know how to "abase and abound"
This way, on this spiritual journey we call life we learn how to stay strong both during hard times and times of great success.
This helps us discover our strengths, our inner strength that is both mental and spirit for we become forget with strength in our inner man.
We navigate sorrow, challenges, setbacks, and disappointment to encounter and experience solutions, miracles, good news even as we develop strong faith.
We navigate loneliness, for the path of every pilgrim is unique, there will be days and moments we feel all alone and perhaps misunderstood but we are never alone for the one who ordained our journey never leaves us nor forsakes us and will be with us till the end of the age (the end of our journey).
We navigate fatigue, laziness, procrastination to learn there is diligence, discipline and determination.
We navigate the dry seasons of life to explore and experience seasons of fruitfulness and flourishing.
The path of the pilgrim is a path of discovery, adventure, and learning.
The path of the pilgrim is a road of life changing experiences, seemingly natural encounters and spiritual wonders.
Guidance, leading and direction are key to our working our salvation.
When those three forces of guidance, leading and direction are involved in our journey we come into joy, and we can say we "draw water out of the well of salvation."
