Travel Tips

Proverbs 3:13-15 

“ Joyful is the person who finds wisdom, the one who gains understanding. For wisdom is ore profitable than silver, and her wages are better than gold. Wisdom is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare to her.” 

I have had the privilege and opportunity to travel a lot. I love to travel with my husband when he is asked to speak internationally especially. I love the adventure of planning out our trip, I will look up the best and most convenient hotels, not necessarily the best most amazing hotels, but ones that travelers have blogged about as being the best for location, price. I have taken some of those Yelp users advice on hotels and other travel tips they offer and I have believed them. I have taken a step of faith in total strangers posting on the travel review sites and believed in them to the point of putting down our credit card to reserve the hotels they told me is good, I have put faith in them based on what they told readers on these random travel review sites, not even people I have met or know. When you think about that, that is pretty brave and risky! I found that most times they were 100% correct when I am in that country and we are living out the travel itinerary that I made for the trip. I find happiness and joy when I see my plans that I coordinated according to the traveler’s advice really did work out! My life is happy and my husband says, “great job on picking this location Hun!” 

Sometimes on our travels we have had to go out on a limb because we are foreigners and we are clueless of what a sign means or we are just so lost and we risk wasting a lot of good time that we don’t want. Every moment is valuable because we know the trip will end soon and there is so much to see and do. We feel vulnerable and need to ask people around us what to do in certain situations to make the most of the moment. This is the same in our lives. Believe it or not, the kind of questions you ask determine the kind of life you lead.  In Ephesians 5:15-16 it says, “Be very careful then how you live, not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.” By being open to learn and living a life of surrendering your own will to the Lord’s, you are going to find your way in life when you get ‘lost.’ If when we were lost in a foreign land when we travel and we are arrogant and proud to ask questions of the people who know the answers to help us out, that is unwise and we will reap the benefit of our pride. In our lives here we need to be open and willing to hear from others and ask for help along our “life’s journey” too.

Proverbs 13:10 “Where there is strife, there is pride, but wisdom is found in those who take advice.”