While travelling to my wife’s parents for the Christmas holidays, we have to cross the state of Illinois. If you know anything about Central Illinois, you know it’s FLAT. Even though there were snow storms prior to our travel the roads were in remarkable condition except a large stretch of road in, you guessed it, CENTRAL ILLINOIS.

Because of the landscape and the gusting winds, snow was being blown onto the right hand lane of the interstate and causing intermittent strips of snow covered highway. At first glance, one would think this was a bad condition with possible ice complicating travel in this lane. With alot of traffic on the road I was forced to drive in this lane for a period of time which unnerved me a little bit. But knowing that I had great tires on the vehicle we were driving and knowing that it was just a light snow that was being blown onto the highway and it was not an icy condition, I felt relatively confident driving in this particular lane.

I said all of that to say this…..

In life the enemy will blow things into our way and psych us out to think it’s more than what it really is. But if we stick to the basic fundamentals and know where we are going, what type of equipment we are operating with and keep our eyes on the road ahead, we can make it through anything.

It’s all in the preparation……You wouldn’t start out on a trip without being prepared for it. We should not begin our sprititual journey without the same type of preparation. Worship, Prayer and Studying God’s Word.