“…God did not lead them on the road to through the Philistine county, though it was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”
As a passenger in a car, you are not the driver. Sounds kind of simple. You don’t get to choose how fast you go, how hard you brake, or turn the wheel because you are the passenger. Sure, you could play some music or help the driver with something, but the fact is that you are not driving anything. All you can do is just sit and see where the driver takes you.
When you are a parent and have kids in the car, I can attest, that those little blessings can and will make the driver do certain things that are not always safe. In life, we are passengers and God should be driving our life. However, too often we, as passengers, take the wheel and assume control only to wreck things and veer off the road God wants us on. We may not understand where we are going, but faith tells us that God does. We can all learn a few key points from the Israelites as they leave Egypt, namely, to trust the driver.
Two things here we must understand about God:
1. He is aware of the journey ahead and is keeping us from war. You might be thinking in your life “Why am I going down this path?” or “This seems like the long way through this.” Just know that He might be leading you away from something you might not be ready to handle.
2. The purpose of the trip is to keep you focused on Him so you don’t go back to your old life. God knows you might not be up to the challenge when things get tough or the shorter way around issues might just lead you into comprising positions for your faith.
This was surely the long and hard way to the land flowing with milk and honey, but you have to believe this path was meant to get a slave population into believing they were a chosen people and acting like it. You may have just seen God’s hand on your life and He delivered you from something that was visibly bad. Remember that the journey now is to get you to believe that you are chosen and are purchased with a price, the blood on the cross.
Knowing this is wonderful, but walking in it and believing it is what we learn to do while we are trusting Him in the desert. Today, thank God for the way he is leading you, pray that your heart will line up with what God wants, and trust Him as your navigator.
Let It Go 
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