Many move for the sake of moving . We fear that if our perpetual mobility stops it means we will have to settle down , which feels like defeat .
So we love the journey on the road for the thrill , not for where it is taking us . We run here and there and then back to here . We are so engrossed in what is happening that we have made the ultimate goal of tomorrow lifeless , colourless and pointless . Our Instagram memories are many , but thinking about our life ’ s journey and imagining our future with God have been relegated .
Without this sense of direction we have eroded the virtue of steadfastness . As we have forgotten where we are going in life , we are less resolute in the places we live . Instead of persevering in our journey and with our fellow travellers , when faced with difficulty we would rather change course or even jettison those with whom we had embarked on the adventure . Without the destination we fail to devote ourselves to this place , this work , this person or this land . Knowing who we are and where we are going in the future helps us persevere in the now .
Jesus called his disciples to follow him along the highways and byways of Galilee and Judea . On the way , he taught them about God ’ s Kingdom he was inaugurating , the virtues of sacrifice and self-denial , and the type of King he was . After his resurrection , Jesus commissioned his disciples for the task that lay ahead of them . Their journeys would take several of the disciples to many different places with the news of Jesus . Their individual quests would differ but they would all be difficult and costly .
Yet they persevered . They saw the resolute love of Jesus in the cross and chose the paths less trodden for the sake of the King and his mission . They resolutely set their eyes on Him and on the greater and eternal destination that Jesus promised them , of a new heaven and a new earth : a destination that was secured through Jesus . As they travelled on the road of life they always had the goal in view .
The boys at Scotch are on the beginning of their journeys in life . The roads stretch out before them full of promise and adventure . May they go forward with a focus on the destination as they navigate life and do so with resoluteness and joy . www . scotch . vic . edu . au Great Scot 9