Path in the Forest-Psalm 25:4

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“Show me your ways, LORD, teach me your paths.”

It’s amazing enough that God gives us promises in Scripture that He has a plan that best suits who He’s made each of us to be but it’s even more astonishing that He gives us passages like this that indicate we can seek Him to find out what that path is!

Now saying that, it’s important to point out that finding this path is not easy and for good reason.  If God were to simply give us a road map that indicated the starting point and the ending point, we’d get in the car of our choice, take the wheel in our hands, turn the ignition, step on the gas and GO!  We’d be missing the key element of enjoying the ride in the company of the One who loves us most and most consistently!

God* wants to be on the journey with us—on the fast-track Interstates and on small trails whose only sound is that of leaves crunching under each step and the song of a sparrow calling in the hidden depth of the forest.  If He were to give us a road map and the path outlined for us, we’d never understand why we have to make some stops along the way and the significant of where we land on those stops.

We can only seek Him and His ways if we slow down to listen after we ask.  Slowing down does not require a quick answer.  Listening doesn’t mean being handed a road map.  We understand the path when we simply walk it and enjoy the company of the One leading us.  Ironically, the slower we walk and the more we look around and enjoy the ride and the company, we realize that the journey IS the plan, a plan which when understood, bring great purpose and pleasure.

*We are adopted in God’s family when we believe that we can’t earn our way into holiness; we can’t ever be good enough on our own to go to Heaven.  This only comes when we understand that Jesus took our sinful nature to death on the cross with Him, and like Him, rise again into a new life (born again) to live eternally with Him and the Father and the Holy Spirit that will live with us to guide us and our prayers and counsel us all our days on earth.