Journey's End

I arrived safely at my folks in NY after a drive that would have been 7 hours, not 8, if I had a bladder the size of anything greater than an amoeba. I did have a first hand view of all the rest stops between Richmond and Binghamton. For the record, Virginia's was probably the nicest. I listened to 8 straight hours of talk radio with one brief interesting exception. For the few moments that I was trying to find another of my favorite fellow mourners of the state of our new Socialist Republic, I chanced upon an announcer who said he was about to give us a pastor with a moment of inspiration.
"I could always use that," I thought.
"John Munro will be speaking with us about 1 Peter," said the announcer.
"What a coincidence!" I thought. My own pastor has the same name! But he won't be as wonderful as my own pastor. And my pastor, from Scotland, is like listening to melted butter the way his mellifluous accent drips across the ears.
Than the pastor began speaking.
"Now that is REALLY a coincidence!" I thought, "How many pastors named John Munro have a Scottish accent!?"
Had anyone but me been privvy to my stunning display of dull-wittedness, I would have been embarrassed. As it was, I did feel a little sheepish when I realized, "Oh.....it IS my pastor!"

I vaguely recalled he had mentioned he would be doing this national radio bible spot periodically. What a joy it was to hear his voice so far from home, so unexpectedly, and near the end of a very tiring journey!

And what a lovely picture it created in my heart; a foretaste of Jesus as we travel to our journey's end. There He will be, His gentle words so familiar and comforting greeting us when we are so weary, when we are wondering if we have the strength to reach our final destination.

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Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls. (1 Peter 1:3-9 NIV)

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