When God delivers you from your Egypt, he may not lead you along the straightest path towards your Promised Land. A straight line is the shortest distance between two points, but it may not be the safest.
Life is full of detours. We can either disdain them as annoyances or accept them as blessings.
Sometimes a detour protects you from a new danger. From further harm. From other enemies just as threatening as the ones you were delivered from. Sometimes the safest kind of danger is the one you never encounter because you went the long way around.
Sometimes a detour protects you from your own self. From the perfectly natural inclination to run from a fight. From the temptation to turn around and go back to what is familiar. Sometimes the safest kind of danger is the one that you’re acclimatized to because you lived with it for so long.
Sometimes a detour simply buys you time to become the kind of person who can live in the Promised Land. When God delivers you from your Egypt, the outer liberation is the easy part. What takes longer is the inner healing—the long, slow process of God re-humanizing you.
See Exodus 13:17-22.