Ever feel like your getting Nowhere?

You work hard, study hard, and try to do all the right things at the right times for the right people, but yet still feel like your getting nowhere?  Yeah, we have all probably felt that way at some point.  You feel like no matter what you do you are heading down a "road to nowhere"... Did you know there really is such a place?

Here is the story of the road to Nowhere:

In the 1930s and 1940s, Swain County gave up the majority of its private land to the Federal Government for the creation of Fontana Lake and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Hundreds of people were forced to leave the small Smoky Mountain communities that had been their homes for generations. With the creation of the Park, their homes were gone, and so was the road to those communities. Old Highway 288 was buried beneath the deep waters of Fontana Lake.

The Federal government promised to replace Highway 288 with a new road. Lakeview Drive was to have stretched along the north shore of Fontana Lake, from Bryson City to Fontana, 30 miles to the west. And, of special importance to those displaced residents, it was to have provided access to the old family cemeteries where generations of ancestors remained behind.

But Lakeview Drive fell victim to an environmental issue and construction was stopped, with the road ending at a tunnel, about six miles into the park. The environmental issue was eventually resolved, but the roadwork was never resumed. And Swain County's citizens gave the unfinished Lakeview Drive its popular, albeit unofficial name "The Road To Nowhere."

 

http://www.greatsmokies.com/roadnowhere.html

 

I have good news for those who feel like they are on a road to nowhere:

 

⁶ being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 1:6, NIV)

We all pretty much know the frustration of the feeling of "getting nowhere fast".  When we start feeling that way the first thing that we start to lose is our confidence.  Confidence is a good thing to have, as long as we don't get over confident.  We need to remember that God has equipped us with what we need to accomplish the purpose He created us for.  God has a plan, He has a purpose.  We just don't always, or can't always see it.  Look at the picture of the tunnel.  There is light at the other end, however it is a long way there.  Sometimes we get in the middle of that tunnel and stop, because the light seems so far away.  Listen, the light is there, you just have to keep trudging forward.  God has begun a great, unbelievable, and exciting thing for you.  You are not done.  He has something at the end of the tunnel for you.  He will help see you through.  Don't give up, don't give in, and don't stop.  You and I have to keep moving forward.

Your not on a road to nowhere, your on a road to somewhere and God is your Guide.

Chris