Knowing Not Where

If we walk with Christ, we go where we know not where.  Such is the nature of the faith journey to which we are called.  It started with the Old Testament man known as Abraham.  In Genesis 12:1 the Word of God says, "Now the Lord said to Abram, 'Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you."  And then, when we make it to New Testament writing known as Hebrews, we find a confirming Word which reads, "By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; and he set out, not knowing where he was going."  (Hebrews 11:8).   

Abraham is the spiritual model for those who decide to respond to the invitation of Christ to come and see.  (John 1:38)  When we start out with Christ we often mistakenly thing that we know what is ahead.  The truth is that we really know nothing.  We begin with some romantic idea of a great adventure in which we will change the world, but soon we realize that we know not where we are going.   

According to the model of Abraham, going where we know not where is a definition of faith in the One who sets us out on the journey.  For most of us it takes some time of going before we come to the understanding that knowing what is up the road was never an option or an offer.  After all, what one of us could have imagined that we would be where we are in the present moment?  We have arrived at this point and place of knowing not where not by our plan or purpose, but by the providential plan and purpose of the Holy One.