The Rubber Hits the Road // There Is a Light at the End of the Tunnel, Part 3

<p>You’ve heard that saying – “asleep at the wheel” right? Well the truth is, that many of us as we drive down this highway called life – are doing just that. We’re asleep to God’s amazing plans and purposes for our lives. Are you … asleep at the wheel??</p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>Asleep at the Wheel</strong></span></h3> <p>Life is full of transitions isn’t it? We go from being a child to being an adult, they call those years our teenage years and anybody who’s been a teenager will know that it’s an awkward often difficult time. You se it’s this transition thing from something we know to something we don’t, from A to B. And what we’d really like is, we’d like our transitions to be quick and simple and direct and comfortable and predictable and safe. That’s what we’d like them to be.</p> <p>But transitions never are. From single to married, from married to single, from staff member to supervision, from supervisor to manager, from employed to unemployed, from student to teacher. Whatever the change is, whatever the transitions is, there’s always an awkwardness, an uncomfortableness about it.</p> <p>So we’ve been looking at this whole transition thing by putting ourselves in Israel’s shoes in this series. They’d been exiled in Babylon for seventy years but at the end of seventy years God’s ready to bless them again and take them back home to the Promised Land. Now you’d think that when Isaiah announced that, there’d be shouting and dancing in the streets. But think about it, most of them had been born in slavery. They’d been there over seventy years!</p> <p>And while they’ve heard of the Promised Land it’s a bit like a dream land! Does it really exist? And hey we’re slaves right? Dominated by the dominant world power of the day the Babylonians, right? How are we ever going to see the Promised Land? That’s the reality. And when we’re in our version of Babylon, when we’re in that difficult place we’d rather not be in, come on, how difficult for us to even begin to imagine that God would act