When we start out on this journey of life we never really know where we may end up when it comes time for our journey to be over on this side of eternity. Some would say that there are many different paths that we can take on this journey. Some stay close to their roots and never leave their hometown. Some may take off and never look back. How we are raised definitely does impact the choices we make and which direction we may choose to go down, but ultimately we all do have a choice of which roads we are going to travel.
Our jobs and careers may take us down certain roads that otherwise we may have never gone down. We may meet certain friends or a mate that we choose to follow down a path they are on. The sad truth is that often tragedy and trauma may hinder the good path we were on to cause us to stray onto paths that if those things had not of happened we would have never gone down.
A question some may think about could be, “Is it too late to turn around from the place I am at, especially if it is not a good place to be?” Most if not all people have at some point been on their journey and looked around and seen this was not the best place for them to be. It is at that moment that we have to choose to take a different path. There will be struggles to find the right path. Our past negative choices sometimes cloud our vision of the right path to be on. Traumas of life may have darkened the path we’re on that we can’t see the light of day on how to get to a better place. We may be bound to others or addictions that hold us back from getting to the road of self improvement.
In the book of Daniel it is very evident that God knows the future. Through visions and dreams and subsequently their interpretations Daniel wrote about events so precisely that often some historians in their disbelief say that the book of Daniel had to have been written after the fact of all the prophecies fulfilled because it was so accurate they can’t believe Daniel would have known hundreds of years before. At first Daniel didn’t know, but God does. He is the Beginning and the End and He already knows what choices we will make or what choices we would have made. Every possible scenario that our life could take God knows the outcome of what it would be. This is why some doors open and some close.
The most important thing to remember is no matter where you are on this journey and you know that it is not the best place to be we can take comfort and solace in Proverbs 3:5-6, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, but in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.” May you trust in Him and in your dark moments on this journey let your faith give you rays of hope to see the path you need to be on.
~TRS “an old article updated and added too” 🙂 3/15/26
Rays of Hope 