When you are on a trip in a car with a young fussy child, it helps to know when you will arrive at your destination. That knowledge helps you endure and be patient with the child.

Young children do not yet have the complete concept of time. They just know they are uncomfortable, hungry or tired and the trip seems endless. They don’t know when the trip will end. 

We tell them we will eventually get there. Perhaps we encourage them by letting them know what they will do when they arrive, or, if heading home, we tell them they will soon be in the comfort of their own home again. If they listen, they will learn they eventually will be getting out of the car and will be comfortable once more. 

As children of God, we, too, are heading toward a destination. We don’t have the same concept of time our heavenly Father does. Jesus brings hope to his people. He brought the Good News of the coming Kingdom of God and lets us know we are all invited.

It is important to meditate on the return of Jesus and the reward he will bring. Like the child, we must try to wrap our minds around the idea that we will eventually reach our destination and we will no longer have the discomfort we now have.

In A Great Woman (Part 3), we learn of the trip the Shunammite woman took and what occurred when she returned home. In The Renewal of All Things we examine the return of Jesus Christ to this earth.