Stay On Course

"Life is a journey not a destination..." India Arie

When I was a little boy, I always knew that I wanted to go to James Madison University. I remember the summer of my 8th grade school year, I went to JMU for the first time for an African American male program, and fell in love. Upon my return home at the end of the summer I immediately went to my mom and told her that I was going to JMU for college. So from 9th grade on whenever someone asked me what school I was going to I would immediately say JMU. My senior in high school, I only applied to one college and that was JMU. I just knew that was the college that I was going to attend to further my education. However that was not the path that I was suppose to take. That wasn't what God had in his plan for me. I applied to JMU and under the wisdom and guidance of my mother she encouraged me to to apply to one other school. So I applied to George Mason University, a school I had never heard of and really had no interest in attending. Well as luck would have it I got wait listed for JMU and got accepted to GMU, which is where I ended up attending. Little did I know that I would meet so many people at GMU that would be influential to my life, that I would find my spiritual father and current church home where I serve as a leader, and realize that GMU was God ordained.

David writes in Psalm 37:23 "The steps of a good man are ordered by the lord". I always knew that my steps were ordered, and that God was always leading me on this journey of life, however I got so caught up in what I wanted to do that I never took the time to ask God, if it was his will.
You must realize that this life is a journey not a destination. "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not to your own understanding and he will direct your path" Proverbs 3:5-6. You must allow God to be the captain of your ship and steer you into the right direction. If you follow his leading he'll guide you through the roughest storms in life, so that you don't get off course.

Life's journey is filled with many bumps, twist and turns, but we can take comfort in the fact, knowing that God is the master of our fate, and the captain of our soul. God has a specific plan and design for our lives. "For I knows the plans I have for you, plans of good and not of evil to give you an expected end" Jeremiah 29:11. However, we must allow are steps to be ordered and stay on the course that he has set for us. By doing so we can reach our final destination.