Our Disney Vacation is booked. I can look at pictures of the hotel, read descriptions of attractions, plan itineraries, even start speculating on the menus. I've been to Disney World dozens of times, I know what I have to look forward to and what I'm looking forward to, more than anything, is a departure from reality.
Real life is tedious and disappointing. Disney life is exciting and magical, why wouldn't I look forward to it? As a Jew, it is in the nature of my very soul to crave something other than what I see.  We are ingrained with a primal desire to bring the time of redemption - the Geula. When Moshiach comes and brings Geula, G-d will once again dwell physically on earth. The Holiness of everything will be visible.  The world will glow with G-dly light.
Pretty magical, huh?
But we can't look at Geula photo albums or book our Geula reservations.  We can only feel pieces of it here and thre when we do Mitzvos.  The one thing for which we are supposed to dedicate our lives' work is something we can't see or touch. Yet.
To work to bring Geula is to live a life of faith, and thus craving it is another act of faith. In this week's parsha, the Jewish people were sent forth into the unknown, to an unseen land on a journey fueled by faith.  Egypt was a land they could see.  It was a rich land filled with beauty and opulence. Israel was a legend across the desert. But one night, B'nai Yisroel just got up and left. Somewhere, on the other side of everything, was redemption.  In the meantime, all they could see was sand.
To even leave was a great act of faith.  To make the journey was a life of faith.  Faith begat faith.  The eventuality of true belief is to continue believing.  To truly believe that HaShem would deliver them into Israel, B'nai Yisroel had to first believe He would safely take them out of Egypt.  Our mission today is to truly believe that HaShem will send Moshiach, and believe our observance of Mitzvos will bring redemption.
We cannot see Geula, but we can feel it's promise.  We cannot book our tickets, we must take every faithful step we can towards Geula with every Mitzvah we do.  It is in a Jew's nature to believe that no matter what he may see, this is not as good as it gets