Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me for you are God my Savior and my hope is in you all day long. (Psalm 25:4-5)
Have you ever taken a tour of a museum or hiked on a trail with a guide? Maybe you were on a camp-out and had a leader who led you through a series of activities; Or maybe you had a coach who taught you an entirely new way to play a sport?
All throughout our lives we have mentors, teachers and guides who help us along life’s journey. We learn new things, skills or tasks, which we build upon in each successive phase of our journeys. Our guides are often wise men and women who have already traveled the path we are taking or have mastered a piece of the trail we need to move forward. We admire these leaders in our lives and trust their advice – we, in fact, put our very lives in their capable hands.
Ultimately, a guide or a teacher can only take us so far on the journey. They only know a portion of our trip, but God knows the entire journey; every curve, corner, nook and cranny. He places the other guides in our paths to help us along, but He is our true guide on this journey.
We follow Him by allowing God to teach us how He wants us to live. His lead begins with our understanding the truth of His love. God is truth – everything about Him is reality – and trusting in Him we will find a clear path in life.
He will not take us faster than we can go – even when we press Him for the next step – nor will He allow us to go too slow. By allowing Him to guide us, to show us His ways, to live the life He desires for us, we will be living a life like Goldie Locks when she ate the last bowl of porridge…“just right”.
But the journey cannot begin until you are ready to listen to your Guide and trust in His leadership.
Are you ready for the journey?
But the journey cannot begin until you are ready to listen to your Guide and trust in His leadership.
Are you ready for the journey?
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-- T.S. Eliot
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