"Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
Lean not on your own understanding,
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
and He will make your paths straight."
Proverbs 3:5-6
The paths before me look ANYTHING but straight.
Twisted. Dark. Difficult. Painful. Confusing. All words that would be among those I might choose to describe the paths before us, but definitely not straight.
The paths before me look anything BUT straight.
My own understanding looks at the road ahead and immediately rushes into overdrive. Trying to plan, trying to reason, trying to to "work it all out", desperately trying to reconcile the brokenness, the pain, the wickedness of this world with the goodness and love of God.
And yet, I can't.
Because in the midst of "my understanding" and "my wisdom", a deeper thought pervades my mind, swiftly bringing all others to a halt:
"My ways are not your ways,
My thoughts are not your thoughts."
At the sound of those words, the way before, strangely enough, becomes clear. Or rather, my way becomes clear.
His Spirit reminds me..
Trust in the Me. Don't try to figure it all out, just do everything for My Glory. And I will be faithful. And one day, when you look back, when you see where I was really taking you, it will all look straight.
But for now: Trust. Surrender. Glorify Me.
I don't mean that the future has suddenly revealed itself, that its all uphill from here, that things will all turn out the way we want. But rather, it has been revealed to me that no matter what the future holds, the path is straight because God is leading it and the path is peaceful because He promises to walk it with me. Each step of the way, exactly where He has already purposed.
The future is His; Obedience is Mine.
The future of the path is His to determine, His to map out. Faithfulness to walk it humbly and obediently is mine to carry on.
Faithful obedience, to Trust, to Surrender, to Glorify God.
My prayer for anyone reading this is that whatever the paths before you may seem like, rest in the knowledge that the One who created the path promises to make it straight if you trust Him, surrender to Him, glorify Him.
Please continue to pray for us as we seek to glorify our Father in Heaven in the good days and in the hard days...
