Direction

Proverbs 20:24  Man's goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way? 

The Lord directs our steps, so why do we try to understand everything along the way?  As I've walked this journey called Life I have failed miserably in trying not to lean on my own understanding.  I have a problem of trying to figure my life out.

Have you ever done this?

I feel best when I have had to just simply, trust.

Trusting in the unseen hand that is guiding me is the remedy for less anxiety.  I know He guides me for I seek after His guidance, and I long for His companionship.  I know that He is always there for me because He told me He'd never leave me nor ever forsake me.  He isn't a promise-breaker.

The NLT translation describes verse 25 like this:  Don't trap yourself by making rash promise to God and only later counting the cost.  

This scripture brings to mind a couple of times where I spoke to God in desperation, petitioning Him for a certain situation, only now to feel that I am counting the cost.  I for sure know that I made one promise that has dearly cost me.

And you see, there I go again trying to understand everything along the way concerning my journey.

God doesn't desire that we be "empty-headed", not have enlightenment or any learning.  He gave us a brain, didn't He? :-) The brain is extremely important to the body.  Pretty much all function of the body ultimately derives from brain function.  But, I also believe that the brain wasn't only put in our heads for bodily function, it was put there for intelligence as well.  The brain is our memory bank.

I want to put as much knowledge about God into my memory bank as I possibly can.  I don't have to understand everything there is to know about Him, I don't have to understand all there is concerning the matters of my life, but I am encouraged to get to know Him better; to have relationship with my Creator.  Through it all, all the life that Life brings our way, there is a a a purpose.  The purpose is to learn to trust in God.

He means everything to me.  I don't know what He's doing in my world, but as long as I feel His touch, and throughout my days, carry the knowledge that He will never forsake, I know that I will be all right.

Trusting Jesus is all that really matters.

I'm glad I was given the opportunity to know the Master, the One that knows it all.  Aren't you??