“Wait on the Lord, and keep His way, and He shall exalt you to inherit the land.” (Psalm 37:34)

Several weeks ago, Sulojana and I were driving to the United States on the QEW (Queen Elizabeth Way), the main highway in our area.

We had carefully chosen to leave at a time when the traffic would not be that heavy.

As we got on to the QEW at St. Catharines, we hardly encountered any traffic at all.

It was only when we got past Niagara Falls that I began to notice the brake lights of cars slowing down ahead of us.

We were forced to slow down to 40 km/hour or less in a 100 km zone.

Of course, we suspected an accident somewhere down the line.

Sure enough we saw some flashing lights in the distance that seemed to confirm this suspicion.

As we got closer though, we realized that the blue lights were not from police cars, but snowploughs.

The photograph accompanying this DWOD is a close representation of what we spied with our eyes that afternoon.

Three snowploughs side by side, clearing the snow off the pavement.

On the one hand, it was frustrating to be slowed down.

Yet, on the other hand, we realized that this temporary inconvenience would actually help us make progress faster as we headed further down the road.

None of us likes to be slowed down as we move towards our destiny, do we?

Yet, isn’t it true that sometimes we are forced to crawl rather than speed on this journey?

We would rather get there sooner than later.

Are there times when God slows us down one stretch of the highway, so that we can speed up when we get closer to our destiny?

This was certainly true of Joseph’s life, wasn’t it?

The dreams he saw clearly pointed to a destiny where he would be lifted high above the rest of his family.

Of course, the journey did not start out well when his brothers threw him in the pit and then sold him as a slave.

Things started to look up when he was entrusted with the management of Potiphar’s household.

But, when he turned down the advances of his master’s wife, he finds himself in prison after being falsely accused of sexual assault.

Joseph must have wondered about all these slowdowns on the road to destiny that were happening even though he was doing all the right things.

It was only in retrospect that Joseph could see that there was a purpose behind the delay in the fulfillment of his destiny.

God had to clear the way for him to become Prime Minister of Egypt, just as the snowploughs had to get the snow out of the way for us to speed into the U.S.

The timing had to be just right.

Have you noticed how quickly his promotion came about? In a mere matter of minutes, he had moved from the prison to the palace. Wow!

Perhaps you are at a point in the journey where you are frustrated at being slowed down in the speedy pursuit of your destiny.

If you, like Joseph, have been doing all the right things, and honouring God every step of the way, then take heart!

It could very well be the case that God has dispatched heaven’s snowploughs to pave the way for you to accelerate into your destiny…praise God!