We live in a very mobile world. Everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere.

Throughout Scripture, God often taught people the greatest lessons along the journey.

Today, we continue with Scott Pauli, our study through the great journeys of the Bible.

Our prayer is that you will rediscover the adventure of walking with God.

The children of Israel, they loved meeting God in the tabernacle.

Oh, that was wonderful.

But sometimes the Lord has to take us into the wilderness to really meet with God.

David loved meeting God in the palace,

but sometimes the Lord has to take us to a cave running for our life to meet with us there.

Elijah loved meeting with the Lord when on the mountain the fire fell,

but sometimes the Lord has to take us out into the middle of nowhere to hear a still small voice.

We love to meet God in a church building, in a beautiful surrounding, but sometimes

the Lord will take you to the hard place, to the lonely place to meet you there. We've come today

in our great journeys of the Bible to a journey that John would never have chosen for himself.

You remember that John was the beloved disciple. He was the one

who leaned on Jesus' breast at supper. He was the disciple whom Jesus loved. That sounds wonderful,

doesn't it? And everybody would love to be that person. And yet, may I point out to you that God

would take John on a journey to a place that no one ever wanted to go.

And it would be in that place that the Lord would meet him. I'm referring, of course, to the Isle

of Patmos. And we know that John wrote several books of our New Testament. He wrote the gospel

that bears his name, the gospel according to John. He was a firsthand witness of the life

and ministry of Christ while the Lord Jesus was on earth. He wrote the three little letters that

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