You are where?!

Step a few yards into Any Mall USA and you will find yourself facing a diagram of the place with an arrow pointing to a big red sticker and the words, “YOU ARE HERE.”

It seems funny such effort is given to point out your current location until you come across one of those diagrams with the sticker and words missing. Then you find yourself scrambling to figure out where you are so you can determine how to get to where you want to go.

We experience the same thing in life.

You can’t really get to where you want to go until you first understand where you are.

That’s why so many never arrive at their desired destination. They fail to understand — or be honest about — where they currently are. They like to think of themselves as being somewhere else, then discover they cannot get to where they want to go from the direction they’re currently facing. They have to correct their current course in order to go where they really want to be.

For example, you cannot reach that place of peace with a practice of worry.

You cannot experience the positive promises of God from a place void of faith.

You cannot find yourself up to your neck in blessings when you’re wading knee-deep in disobedience.

To get to a better place, you have to begin by being honest about where you are at right now, then adjust your course accordingly.

Do you know where you want to be? Do you know where you are now? What will it take to go from where you are to where you want to be?

Scotty