Moses was on a detour for forty years as God developed him for his destiny. He knew what God wanted him to do. God wanted him to deliver his people from slavery. Yet it took forty years in the wilderness to develop Moses into the humble and trusting servant that he needed to be in order to have the mindset, faith and abilities to carry out the plan. 

Abraham was on a twenty-five-year detour. At one point God had told him His plan for him – that He would bless nations through Abraham and make his name great. The vision and the proclamation from God to Abraham were real and vivid. It would have been odd for Abraham to believe at that point that it would be nearly three decades before he would witness the literal birth of it. But it was.

The greatest apostle in the New Testament, Paul, went on a three-year detour to a desert where God removed him from the front page of culture and life in order to strengthen him, teach him, and develop him for his calling. 

Detours are often a regular part of God’s plan in guiding us to His purpose and plan for our lives. He uses these periods to develop us so that we can effectively carry out our purpose when it is the appointed time.

God will often give us a glimpse of our destiny long before we are prepared to actualize it, as He did when He told Abraham that there would be a 400-year detour in Egypt before they would reach their promised destination (Genesis 15:12-16).

Friend, don’t become so discouraged in the delays that you give up on the pursuit of your purpose. Trust the process. God is developing you for the plan He has created you to live out!

Every day pray: “Your Kingdom come, Your will be done – on earth as it is in heaven.”

God WILL work His plan, with or without me or you. Make sure you get in on it! We are so blessed and fortunate to be a part of it!