I don’t know what you enjoy doing, or call relaxing, or consider fun, but for me, I love a road trip. Getting on a highway and just driving for hours uniterrupted with various scenery on my right and on my left is one of my favorite things to do. What makes a road trip so enjoyable is when I do it alone, I have time to pray, listen to sermons or just roll down the windows and listen to the wind blow. But if I am with my best friend or other people I enjoy doing life with, oh the joy of conversations that happen on those highways.

I was reading Psalm 84 this morning and it reminded me of my love for road trips when it said, “Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. As they go through the Valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools. They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion.”

The Psalmist remembered a road trip to Zion and even though they went through some valleys of weeping to get there, the joy of Zion, the rain that fell and made pools of water, the stories they shared along the way, made the roadtrip enjoyable for them. Israel went on a roadtrip with God Himself through the wilderness with a cloud leading by day and a fire by night. Joshua took his military on a road trip around the walls of Jericho with a shofar in their hand. David took a road trip from the pasture to the battle line where he met, Saul, his brothers and Goliath. And Jesus took many road trips with disciples from the North to the South of Israel.

I sense God has us on a roadtrip with Him and even as we go through valleys, take rest stops, and need a snack break, I think He loves road-tripping with us, either alone or with us and others. I hope there is a highway inside of you that is leading to the city of God, because God loves a roadtrip and He knows how long until we arrive, but I hope we are mature enough to enjoy the ride and are not in the backseat crying out, are we there yet? Christianity is a roadtrip, and I am here for it. Maybe I’ll see you at a rest stop along the way.