Lights Will Guide You Home

In the journey of faith, you need a revelation—not just a knowledge of, or a hope for, but a guiding light that never dims as it shows you the way through the fog of life; a light that continually reveals a God who is with you always, who’s got your back no matter what you encounter, whose power, not yours, will see you through, who will finish what he’s started in you and who will faithfully guide you home.

The Journey // Focus: Genesis 28:12-15

As Jacob slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway. At the top of the stairway stood the Lord, and he said, “I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham, and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I am giving it to you and your descendants. Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will spread out in all directions—to the west and the east, to the north and the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants. What’s more, I am with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. One day I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything I have promised you.”

To call it the road less travelled would be an understatement. Jesus referred to it as the straight and narrow way, the path of denial, the way of death. Without exception, every giant of faith in Scripture knew of the difficulty of the walk; they experienced it in a variety of manifestations: the pit, the prison, the wilderness, the cave, and the place of exile. Of course, I am talking about the journey of faith.

So why would anyone in their right mind ever choose to enter the way of faith, seeing from such examples that it is the most difficult calling in life? Simply because it is the one and only way to real life—abundant life now and eternal life forever—that’s why!

But to traverse this hard road—to start strong and finish well—the traveller needs a guiding revelation. That is what Jacob received at Bethel, where in a dream of a stairway to heaven, God spoke to him and assured this wandering patriarch-in-training that he would bring to pass everything that had been previously promised to Jacob’s grandfather, Abraham and his father, Isaac.

Similar to Jacob, every believing traveller needs a guiding revelation, whether the revelation comes from a dream (not too likely in this era of God’s activity among humans) or through the Word of God brought to life by the Holy Spirit (a much more likely—and sure—way to receive Divine instructions). And like the divine download Jacob received, that revelation is simply, yet powerfully this:

The promise of God’s presence: “What’s more, I am with you…” (Genesis 28:15a)

The promise of divine preservation: “…and I will protect you wherever you go.” (Genesis 28:15b)

The promise supernatural power: “One day I will bring you back to this land.” (Genesis 28:15c)

The promise of an inalterable plan: “I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything I have promised you.” (Genesis 28:15d)

Without a revelation—not just a knowledge of, or a hope for, but a rock-solid belief system that becomes your fulcrum of faith—that God is and always will be with you, that he’s got your back no matter what you encounter or are forced to endure, that his power, not yours, will see you through and that he will finish what he has started, you will not complete the journey of faith on the road less traveled.

I know that sounds ominous, but the good news is, success in the journey is not up to you. It is all on God. You just need to commit to the path, ask and receive the guiding revelation, then pursue it with an unfailing focus on the finish, for there is no destination that compares to where you are headed.

Of course, what I have just described doesn’t sound easy. It’s not, but it is worth it. And again, once you commit to the way of faith, heart, soul, mind and strength, you have Someone who will be with you, will protect you, will fulfill his every promise to you, and will finish in you what he started.

Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 1:6)

Go with God—I promise you, you won’t regret it!