Proverbs 3:5-6
When our children were very young they used to follow me when I mowed the lawn. They liked to walk where I had been. They pretended that they were in cars and that the cut path was a road for them. As I mowed the swaths I had cut became intersecting avenues that allowed them to go in various directions. My children trusted me to provide them with safe, smooth and interesting ways to go. It wasn’t the fastest and most efficient way to mow the lawn, but it was a lot of fun for the kids.
While we may feel daunted by the prospect of going forward in our life or exploring the challenges of our faith, we need to remember that God has gone before us in all things. When we hesitate and worry about what might be, what might happen, what terror could be awaiting us around the next corner, we must have the faith to know that God has walked before us.
His teaching and guidance exists in the form of the Bible. Over the ages He has spoken to us and offered instruction and counsel. He has laid out His promises and professed His love. And He has given us His assurance.
How are we to behave toward God? Are we to rely on our own understanding? What does God do for us?
It can be difficult to step forward in faith, but we are called to follow God. We are called to turn to His word – the Bible – and find His wisdom. Through the word of God we can find the knowledge of God, which can and should replace our own, fallible understanding.
We should recall that our Lord is a loving God who cares for us very deeply. As a father leads his own children in safety and righteousness, as a father may prepare a path of goodness for his little ones, so God prepares the paths in our lives so that we might follow Him. We should learn to trust in our God, to lean on Him and rely on His love as we walk through the paths of life.
DAILY CHALLENGE: How can you follow God with more assurance?
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