- Reading this really resonated with me—especially the part about the weariness of the road and how it mirrors our deeper journeys. That’s why I’ve come to value planning travel that nourishes both body and soul. Using https://tripcom-hk.com/ has helped me choose trips that are more restorative, with smoother logistics and meaningful stops. When the journey is easier, I find it’s much easier to reflect, recharge, and return home renewed.
Weary Travelers
Weary Travelers
Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Our family loves to travel. We have had the blessing to be able to travel throughout most of the Eastern parts of the United States. My main role as we travel is to be the driver. I do not mind driving; I have a terribly hard time trying to sleep in vehicles while on the road. So if I must be awake I am just as satisfied driving than anything else. But there are certainly draw backs from being the “driver”. Of course the obvious: traffic, bathroom breaks, other drivers on the road, but the less obvious is the toll the drive takes on the driver. When we reach our desired destination it takes a day or so, depending on the length of drive, to get your barrens about you again. As we all know, however, sometimes when we travel things just do not go by our plan. We can find ourselves in bad weather, the traffic can be worse than normal, we could drive through more construction usual, or we could just get lost. These things cause a weariness to fall on the travelers.
What a picture of our Christian life. When the Lord draws us to Himself and calls us to salvation we generally feel excited, full of zeal, and ready to take on life. But then the long road begins. The Christian life gives us many hills and valleys. Generally those hills and valleys sneak up on us and we find ourselves not as prepared as we should be. Can you imagine driving down the interstate coming around a bend and hitting stopped traffic as far as you can see and it does not look like it is going to break anytime soon. Then you look down and notice you’re sitting on about a 1/8 of a tank of gas, instant anxiety. As we journey toward heaven, trials and tribulations meet us head on, unfortunately we find ourselves low on fuel as we try to walk through the valleys. More than often we find ourselves as weary travelers on our way home.
Weariness as we make our journey home is not always a bad thing; it is not always something we can control. Things happen in our life that our completely outside our hands. But to be ready for the weariness is what we must do. When we go down into the valley and are burdened with sin or even burdened with the weight of worldly concern it can become very hard to pick ourselves up out of the valley. But, the point of the Christian life is not to do this on our own. The point is that we cannot pick ourselves up; the fact is that we have a Savior that can empathize with us in our weariness, so that by faith in Him we can press on as well. Our weariness must be expressed in our desperation for our Savior to take us home. We have to cast off those sins that burden us and to cast off anything that would keep us from running. As the writer of Hebrews continues to write in chapter 12 we must set our gaze upon Jesus as we travel:
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1-2
As I said above, I love to travel. I love the new experiences, I love seeing new things, and I love eating the food associated with the culture of where we travel. Many times the weariness of travel is forgotten when we reach our destination. But, there is nothing like coming home. It is the same feeling every time. The dread of the drive but late in the evening pulling into the driveway, opening the front door smelling that smell of home, walking in laying on that comfortable, familiar couch and taking rest from our journey.
One day, as we walk through the valley of the shadow of death. We come to the end of our journey; we walk up to the mighty Jordan and cross to the other side. It will be somewhat of a familiar feel, something we have known deep in our soul. We will realize that we have not come to our end but that we have made it home. The journey will probably be hard, there will be mountains and valleys, heartbreak and pure joy, but nothing will compare to the rest we take as we sit with our Savior for all eternity fully in His grace and love. As weary travelers let us look to our hope at the end, our Christ, our King, Jesus.