Yogi Berra was a baseball player for the New York Yankees;
one of the greatest players in the history of the game. However, he is perhaps
more widely known for his witty and sometimes ridiculous quotes. While some of
his quotes are nothing more than confusing and goofy, some of them are
extremely truthful and deep. One of these quotes is this: “If you don't know
where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.”
The best way to end up where you don’t want to be is to
begin by not knowing where you want to go. This can be applied to all areas of
our lives. If we do not have a plan for our lives, then we might not end up where
we intended to. If you unpack Yogi’s quote, the problem begins with not knowing
where you want to go and it ends with you winding up somewhere other than where
you planned to be.
Satan is so good at distracting us Christians from where we
want to be. He forces us off the path where we lose sight of Jesus, who should be
our ultimate goal. We get so caught up in our problems, sins, and enjoyments that we forget where we are going, and end up somewhere else. Our tendency to
focus on our own problems and ourselves rather than on Christ, is forcing us down
the path to somewhere else. It doesn’t really matter where somewhere else is to
Satan as long as it isn’t Jesus.
We should make a conscious effort to know where Jesus is so
that we can follow him. To know what we are striving for and who we are chasing
after. To focus on Christ rather than ourselves. And to know where we are going
so that we don’t end up somewhere else.
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