Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God.

Are you willing to be God's pilgrim and to launch out on the great journey of contemplating the fathomless, tasting the infinite, and delighting in God's incomprehensible love? If so, gather your materials, set aside a time, find a place, and draw near to your great God. As you embark on this magnificent pilgrimage of the heart, I would not have you simply watch a travelogue on the Holy Land. I desire that you touch for yourself the blades of grass on the Mount of Olives and watch the sun glisten on the Sea of Galilee. My prayer is that you will "taste and see that the Lord is good" (Psalm 34:8).