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This is Not Where I Wanted to Go!

by Jerry Ousley  
2/13/2009 / Christian Living


I tell a lot of stories about when I was in the Army, but I guess everyone who has had that experience has a lot of stories to tell. This happened during basic training. Another soldier and I had an appointment to fill out some papers across the base. This was at Fort Dix, New Jersey. The office we were to go to was on the other side of the base and was too far to walk. They had a bus system on the base that cost maybe fifty cents a person to ride and the other soldier and I were at the bus stop waiting for the next one to come along.

All of a sudden two guys in a military pickup truck stopped and asked where we were going. We paid attention to what this guy was saying because he had sergeant stripes on his shirt and we were mere privates. The sergeant told us to hop in the back of the pickup and he and his buddy would take us to this office. At first we insisted that we didn't want to inconvenience them and that we would just wait for the bus. But the sergeant insisted so we counted it to our luck that we'd get there sooner and save fifty cents apiece in the process.

However, the pickup truck kept going deeper and deeper into the base and the surroundings became more and more remote. Was this some kind of short cut to the office or something? Then, right smack dab in the middle of nowhere they pulled over and stopped. The sergeant very cordially stuck his head out the window and said, "We'll be glad to take you to the office you need to get to but it's going to cost you five bucks apiece." Now we were in trouble. I guess I should say that I was in trouble because the other soldier only had fifty cents (or at least that's what he said). It cost me ten dollars to get to the office that would have cost us a total of one dollar had we waited on the bus. To top it off, as the pickup truck pulled up to the office we saw the bus just pulling away. We had saved no time at all and it had cost me ten bucks!

Sometimes we find ourselves going somewhere we didn't want to go. In 2 Kings 6 we read about a whole army who arrived in a place they didn't want to go. In a nut shell, the king of Syria had been trying to place his army in position to attack Israel. God was revealing this to the Prophet Elisha who was relaying this information to the king of Israel. The king of Israel would send men to that place and when the Assyrians got there Israel was already there. When the king of Assyria found out that Elisha the Prophet was the culprit revealing his secret plans he sent his army to find Elisha. One morning the servant of Elisha stepped outside, and the town where they were staying was surrounded by the Syrian army. God, at Elisha's prayer, revealed the fiery army of God surrounding them when his servant told him about it.

However, again in answer to Elisha's prayer, God made the Syrian army blind and Elisha led them right into the capital city of Israel. When they realized where they were they also realized that they had lost and no one had fired a shot! This was not where they wanted to go.

Sometimes God allows us to go places we don't really want to go. Those places aren't always physical locations but are places of experience in our lives. It could be many things but it is a place in your life you'd rather not be. When God allows this there is always room in that place for Him to be glorified. He will open our eyes and reveal His own great army that surrounds and protects us. It requires us to have a bit of faith. It may require us to extend ourselves in an area we never intended. But when we go there with God and extend ourselves at His bidding, giving up to Him, it may not be where we wanted to go, but you can be sure that it will turn out for the best in the end.

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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