Tag: Transits

Nehemiah 2:6 Then the king… asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you get back?” It pleased the king to send me; so I set a time. Nehemiah was an exile from Judah, the cupbearer to the Persian King Artaxerxes. Nehemiah held a very esteemed secular position in the palace where...

John 4:6 Jesus, tired as He was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. Jesus was travelling north from Judea to Galilee and took a transit to have a rest break at Sychar, the Samaritan town. It was very unusual for Jews to have dealings with the Samaritans. During the...

Luke 24:13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. On the victorious day on which Jesus was resurrected from the dead, two disciples Cleopas and his friend were on a journey to Emmaus. It is possible that these disciples were from the village...

Luke 10: 30 A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. In the journey of life there will be people who will hop on and hop off at different stages. There will be...

Numbers 32:5b Don’t take us to the other side of the Jordan River. Two tribes Reuben and Gad decided to settled with the second best. They made their short transit stage  their permanent stay and did not cross over the Jordan River into Canaan that God had promised their forefathers. After wandering for 40 years...

Genesis 28:11 When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. Transits are stops between two travel points where we are forced to rest on uncomfortable plastic chairs and neck pillows!...

Joshua 5:6 For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. Transits are temporary stops between different seasons of life. During air travel, at transits we refresh and recuperate for the next...

Ecclesiastes 3:1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven The journey of life has different transit points. Some are pleasant transits which we presume are  permanent stays while others are debilitating transits that puncture the tyres, jamming our progress. We must remember not to make ‘life’s stages’, ‘stays’....