Dear Friend,
Previously, I’ve shared with you the benefits of trusting in the Lord and leaning on His understanding. Today, we’ll be looking at how walking in his ways can deliver us from evil and lead us to our expected end. Are you ready for this?
PROVERBS 3:5-6
- Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding; - In all your waysacknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.
The word “Way” in the King James Version of the Bible is mentioned 608 times while the plural “Ways” occurs 205 times in 198 verses and they both in many cases refer to one’s direction, manner, character, habit (way of life) and action.
In Isaiah 55:8-9, we see God making a clear distinction between our ways and His ways. It’s amazing that before God talks about His ways, He mentions something about His thoughts. Psalms 92: 5-6 makes a correlation between God’s thought and His works and here’s what I’ve been pondering on: Had God’s thoughts not been deep, profound, unsearchable, His works would probably not be great. Likewise, if our thoughts are still simple (foolish, silly, seducible), we cannot attain much in life; we will not achieve our purpose.
Our lives, our ways are headed towards the direction of our thoughts. If what we imagine is not concrete enough to sustain us in our journey then we need God’s help, we need to know what He’s thinking. Here’s what Jeremiah 29:11 says: “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
An expected end is a destination, final/closing stage, finishing line, last part, conclusion, it’s an ending. Every journey takes a while to end and is sometimes hard to complete therefore during this journey (life), God has made provision for us that all we need to do is acknowledge Him and He will direct, smoothen; make easy the paths that we walk on for our own good.
One of the inventions of this age that I admire so much is the satellite navigation system. According to Psalms 32: 8, God wants to guide you and instruct, teach, and guide you in the way that you should go but just like the satellite navigation system will not help you if you don’t engage it during your journey, God won’t. He’ll be waiting till you involve him so He can lead you forth in the right way that you may enter your habitation – your territory – resting place – just another term for “your expected end“(Psalms 107:7).
You may say, well, I definitely haven’t been walking in God’s ways and I’m far too gone – That’s not true beloved because, just as the satellite navigation system can re-route you from where you are when you’ve missed the prescribed route, so can God redirect your way to get you to your expected end.
If you’ll be meek enough today and submit your ways to Him, God will guide you and teach you his way (Psalms 25: 9 ). He knows the way that you ought to take, trust Him today to be your guide.
Isaiah 30:21
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
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