I have often been surprised at seeing the patience with which my fellow-travelers on a long and tedious journey, have put up with many annoyances and inconveniences. I suppose it is because it is but a journey, and the mind occupied with arriving at the journey’s end think but little of the troubles by the way. This reminded me of David in 1 Samuel 25, whose mind set by Abigail on the journey’s end, 29-31, was able to overlook the insults by the way, as one has so well said:
“The heart must be on the end of the journey, not on the incidents by the way, to know how to be abased and how to abound.” Would that the journey’s end were more to us, and then the ups and downs would not upset us as they do.