Order your steps toward destiny? Who wants steps? I don’t like steps. Never have, even as a kid. When I was younger, I was impatient going up staircases, and because I have long legs, I would bound two or – three steps at a time.
I would find a way to maneuver around old people because I was too restless to wait for them to navigate their way up or down.
I did that until the day I fell going up the steps. That fall taught me to respect steps. One at a time, they take you to the next level.
Now that I’m older, I don’t take on steps so hurriedly. I’ve learned that each step is important. When I was young, it was funny to me to see an older person take one step at a time, but now that I’m older, I’ve learned the “race is not given to the swift.
Nobody wants steps. They’re not attractive. We try to decorate them with fancy wood and railings, but the only reason we have steps is to get us to a higher level. If there was a way to get to a higher level without steps, we would take it.
The Bible says in Psalm 37:23 that the steps of a good ma, are ordered by the Lord. The word steps implies process. God orders steps.
That means Destiny is going to take a while. Steps mean you can’t get to the destination just because you want to, would like to, or even need to.
You can stand on the first floor of a building and look up the staircase to the next floor for as long as you want, but all the wishing, hoping, and praying in the world are not going to get you to the second floor until you take the steps.
You’re standing on the first floor of your life. Your first-floor life has all the basics, and you may be fine with that until you see a staircase to stories above and glimpse what you never imagined.
That’s Destiny, and you want to go up there. You want to be on one of those top floors. But you can t get up there quickly. You must take the steps.
You want to hasten the process to Destiny, get to an expected end, but that cannot be done. No shortcuts. No way to bypass some steps. No elevator to Destiny.
Steps do not make life harder; they create readiness. God knows that a blessing given too soon is not a blessing at all.
Suppose your twenty-year-old son needs transportation. You gift him keys to his own car—a blessing to him to get to school or work.
But if you had given him his own car when he was ten, that wouldn’t have been a blessing to him or to the others on the road.
Ten years earlier, the same son given the same car may have yielded a tragic outcome because he couldn’t have handled it then.
Before getting the car, your son needed to go through the steps of driver education. He needed to study the manual for his learner’s permit and prepare for the written test.
He needed to take and pass the written test. He needed to practice driving on side streets and empty parking lots with an experienced driver in the passenger seat to help him.
Then he needed to pass the road test and receive his license. He needed to demonstrate trustworthiness to you when he borrowed the family car and returned it when promised, no scratches, clean and gassed up.
There are many steps before that ten-year-old boy is ready for the blessing a new car is to a twenty-year-old.
Steps are part of our maturation. If we get what God has in store for us too soon, we can’t handle it.
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