God Will Light Your Path

Do you need to make an important decision? Have you asked God to guide you? God says, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go.” (Psalm 32:8).

When you’re driving at night you won’t see the entire highway lit up all at once. You can only see how far your car’s headlights shine down the road. But as your car moves forward, the light keeps moving ahead of you to light your path. You’ll eventually reach your destination by following the light.

When God led Israel through the wilderness, “The pillar of cloud did not leave them by day, to guide them on their way, nor the pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they were to go” (Nehemiah 9:19). Although God doesn’t lead us exactly like that today, He still guides us by illuminating our paths.

When you seek the Lord to guide you He will shine light on the right path. It might only be enough light to take one step. But when you take that step, He’ll give light for another step. He reveals His will to you a little bit at a time—like a scroll being unrolled. 

God lights the path through…

1. God’s Word. “Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Ps. 119:105). God will never lead us in a path that contradicts the Scriptures.

2. Desires in your heart. “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart” (Ps. 37:4). When you seek God to make the right decision, He will put the desires in your heart to want what He wants.

3. Open and closed doors. He will open the right door or may close a wrong door. See Revelation 3:7-8.

Read The Sure Cure for Worry for much more information about how God will guide you on the right path. www.kentcrockett.blogspot.com

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Walking by Faith (Baby Steps)

In the comedy movie What About Bob?, Bill Murray plays a man who is afraid of everything. He goes to a psychotherapist, Dr. Leo Marvin, who tells him the answer to his problem is to take baby steps. Bill asks, “What are baby steps?”

Dr. Marvin explains, “It means setting small reasonable goals for yourself, one tiny step at a time. For instance, when you leave this office, don’t think about everything you have to do to get out of the building, just think about what you must do to get out of the room. When you get to the hall, deal with the hall, and so on. Do you see?”

Bill Murray understands and says, “Baby steps!” As he leaves, he takes six-inch steps as he’s repeating to himself, “Baby steps…baby steps through the office….baby steps out the door...”

Your first step of faith doesn’t have to be a huge step. It can be a baby step. Just like a toddler learns to walk, every follower of Christ needs to learn how to walk by faith. Paul says, “For we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Cor. 5:7). When God told Abraham to leave his country, “he went out, not knowing where he was going” (Heb. 11:8). He took a baby step out the door and kept walking by faith...and God led him to the Promised Land.

Walking by faith means obeying what God tells you to do. It might be stepping into unfamiliar territory like Abraham. It may be speaking up about what you believe like Stephen (Acts 6-7) or doing something you’ve never done before like Noah (Heb.11:7).

What is calling you to do? Take a step of faith into the unknown and trust God to lead you. Now take another step. That’s walking by faith. It’s as simple as taking baby steps. www.kentcrockett.blogspot.com  www.makinglifecount.net

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