Walking with God
I thought about naming this devotion “Life Goals”. It sounds so simple, “At the command of the Lord they encamped, and at the command of the Lord they set out,” but isn’t that our goal today? We want to walk only in the path God leads us down, but so often that path disappears before us. It isn’t that God has left us unguided but that we allow our own thoughts, worries, and doubts to block our vision.
Back in 2010, my husband and I rededicated our marriage and daily lives to the service of God. We kept it simple. We promised, “Whenever, wherever, Lord.” Less than a month later, God tested that commitment and called us to pack our family up and move almost 400 miles away to a place we did not have a home or job waiting for us. God proved faithful because He knows no other way, and I will never regret the move. Through the years, we have faced decisions where our thoughts clouded our faith and we always come back to that simple statement of obedience, “Whenever, wherever, Lord.” It has not been easy. Our lives were not designed to be simple. But, one thing I have learned over and over again is that God is so much smarter than me. He sees the big picture, and He knows what He is doing. All we have to do is move when He moves and stay when He stays.
The book of Isaiah contains a message from God to His people. Chapter 42 has a beautiful and powerful insight into trusting God along our journey. It says, in part, “I am the Lord, I have called you in righteousness, I have taken you by the hand and kept you; I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness… I will lead the blind in a way that they know not, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.”
Like the Israelites, we are wandering around in a wilderness we have never walked before. Each day, each choice, each choice that is made around us shapes the outcome of our journey. We cannot see far enough down the road to know what will happen. We cannot accurately prepare for tomorrow, but we can obediently trust the only One who knows when the time is right to move and when we should stay. We have made the commitment to follow, everything else is in God’s hands. It sounds simple. I know it feels hard, but our faith assures us we can trust.
(Written by Keegan Harkins.)
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