Yesterday I was having lunch with a good friend and mentor and I was explaining to him the season of life that I find myself in and he was able encourage me with a scripture out of Jeremiah 10:24-25 and today I hope that I can encourage you wherever you find yourself in this life.
Jer. 10:24-25-says, "I know O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps. Correct me, O Lord, but in justice not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing."
This verse is saying that there are three ways to find your path in life, three ways to try and do things.
1. To find it on your own, this is the independent man or woman that blazes their own trail and tries hard to find fulfillment in anything and everything they can.
2. To listen to other people tell you where to go, this is the passive person who usually is so unconfident in himself or herself that they are fearful to make any move, so they just let others tell them where to go.
3. To submit your steps and will to the Lord and allow Him to use the first two in the right Biblical sense. In our lives the Lord will, out of His great mercy, strip away areas where we cling to our wisdom and our way of doing things, so that we may better follow Him. The word says, "there is a way that seems right to man and in the end leads to death." God will take us to the end of ourselves, He will strip our pride away, He will even remove people for a season to allow us to lean not on our own understanding but on Him.
Then He says, "I am the WAY, truth, and the life." He is our way, the only way to finding fulfillment and meaning in this life. He is the one that made the tracks and He is the hand that guides the train. You may be facing a season where everything is going well, or everything seems to just be piling up like a bad car wreck, ask yourself, "how is the Lord asking me to trust Him today, and how can I follow in obedience." That brings Him glory and us ultimate good.
LOVE GOD LOVE PEOPLE
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