When I was in LA a couple weekends ago, I deliberately called a Waymo for a slightly non-walkable distance rather than a conventional Uber. (Remember when ride-sharing was also a novelty?) On top of the rapidly improved technology, I was surprised by the normalcy and rapid acceptance of them among locals.
That aside, as a person who prefers to not move at all, focusing on enjoying the ride can quickly become a sinful contentedness, so remembering the destination a la Philippians 3:14 has also been important for me. But I don't necessarily think the way forward God prescribes is to overcorrect and only focus on the destination either. And aiming for a particular balance or maintaining a perfect tension between two truths seems to limit ourselves to swinging back and forth forever.
The chapter on Time in CS Lewis's Mere Christianity has helped me immensely with these kinds of questions. We are limited to experiencing life second by second, but God is outside of time. He is at the destination. He is in the journey. But we can only experience and know God in the current moment, whether we are on the move or we are still. So we can enjoy both, knowing that God is with us!
When I was in LA a couple weekends ago, I deliberately called a Waymo for a slightly non-walkable distance rather than a conventional Uber. (Remember when ride-sharing was also a novelty?) On top of the rapidly improved technology, I was surprised by the normalcy and rapid acceptance of them among locals.
That aside, as a person who prefers to not move at all, focusing on enjoying the ride can quickly become a sinful contentedness, so remembering the destination a la Philippians 3:14 has also been important for me. But I don't necessarily think the way forward God prescribes is to overcorrect and only focus on the destination either. And aiming for a particular balance or maintaining a perfect tension between two truths seems to limit ourselves to swinging back and forth forever.
The chapter on Time in CS Lewis's Mere Christianity has helped me immensely with these kinds of questions. We are limited to experiencing life second by second, but God is outside of time. He is at the destination. He is in the journey. But we can only experience and know God in the current moment, whether we are on the move or we are still. So we can enjoy both, knowing that God is with us!