You don’t see many of these on the road today but when I was growing up in the 60’s it was a great way to travel. When I was too young to drive, and my dear friend moved to Monticello and Hot Springs the bus made it possible. The bus ride to Hot Springs required transferring from one bus to another at the Little Rock bus station. The bus station had many buses, and they all looked the same. Each bus had a placard on the front boldly stating the destination. Note, in the picture this bus is going to Pittsburgh. It was also good to ask the bus driver if you were on the right bus, because the bus was not going to change the route or destination for anyone.

One of my favorite examples of God’s people, telling God where to go is found in Exodus. But before God’s bus showed up at the station let’s go back to Genesis 15:13-14 where God made a promise to Abraham, “Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.” God made the promise of the Promise Land to Abraham when Abraham thought he could never have children. God placed His Promise Land placard on His bus…His Way.

In Exodus we find that God had fulfilled His promise of redeeming His people from Egypt and had gotten as far as the Red Sea when they saw Pharoah’s army fast approaching. In Genesis 15:10, “As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord. They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!” The people are demanding God, “Turn this bus around now!”

You know, we are much like the Disciples when they faced their storms. In Matthew 8:23-27 the Disciple are out on the sea when a terrible storm came up. They could not understand how Jesus could sleep through what appeared an impossible storm. “God, turn this bus around, now!” But this was another time God was teaching a fundamental Principle: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.” Isaiah 55:8

The age-old question is, who do you trust? Do you trust your ability… the commitment of other people, governments, or God? David discovered after being spared from impossible situations countless times, “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.” Psalm 20:7

I don’t know what tomorrow brings but this I know for certain, “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.” John 10:27-30

Jesus is my Hope…my Good News. He can be yours, If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10:9