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Detours are a good thing that often feel bad.

If you were to sit at a detour sign and stubbornly refuse to take the diversion, you would go nowhere. You would just sit there. For days. Possibly weeks sometimes. Yes, a detour may take longer than you had originally planned; however, it won’t take any longer that if you were to try to push through it on the original path. That will get you nowhere. 

Ultimately, while detours may feel like a negative thing, they are a good thing. They provide safety, opportunities for road improvement and a different way to get you where you had wanted to go. When viewed from a short-term perspective, they may not seem that good. But when you look at the overall long-term vantage point, they are always good. This is why your perspective toward a personal detour matters and will influence the impact it has on your life. If you spend your time complaining about it rather than seeking to understand the purpose of it, you will be less likely to benefit from it. 

As people, we like to plan. We make our itineraries when we travel. Or we keep a log of our schedule on a calendar app. We appreciate the efficiency of moving forward steadily. We would never plan chaos and detours into our life on purpose. And yet that seems to be God’s modus operandi – His go-to mode for guiding us.

Rarely does God ever take someone to the destiny He has for them without taking them on a detour, or two or ten, or even a hundred. It is the one-in-a-million Christian who gets to go from point A to B to C and straight on to Z. Most often God takes you from A to F to D to R to B to Q and so on. You never know which letter He is pulling out next, either.

He does this because His wisdom reaches far above our own. He knows how to develop, prepare and position you for the perfect fulfillment of the purpose He has for you.