PROVERBS 4:25-27

Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways. Do not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.

TO PONDER

Do you love mountain top experiences? The awesomeness of standing at a high point and surveying the surrounding vista can be something else. However, to have this experience often requires trekking for some distances, often along a path that is not smooth and level. And we may need to concentrate to ensure we don’t trip or fall and injure ourselves. Then the challenges of finally getting there are forgotten while enjoying the inspiring views.

Our lives can sometimes be seen as a parallel to this. God’s ultimate goal for us is that mountain top experience of spending eternity with Him, one absolutely awesome experience after another with no thought of wanting the experiences to end. (No one could ever possibly be bored in Heaven.)

And yes, there is a journey we need to take to get there – it is called life on this earth. But we don’t take the journey alone. Our loving God is always right beside us every moment of the journey, whether we realise it or not, even whether we want Him there or not.

And He has given us a lot of resources to help us on our journey. On of the resources I really enjoy is this book full of the stories of people who have travelled this journey before us. It tells of their struggles, their failures, their successes, but best of all the way God has helped them when they finally stopped trying to go the journey alone and surrendered to God leading them on the journey.

And we mustn’t forget that God fully understands the struggles we face. Jesus took this journey too and faced all the same challenges we face on this journey of life.

But the journey is much more than struggles. There are many wonderful experiences of seeing our loving God in action as He guides us and all the other people on this journey.

Prayer:  Heavenly Family, thank You for the fact that You are always with us on this journey of life. Thank You for Your Holy Spirit guiding us and for all of the fellow travellers supporting and encouraging us on the journey.Amen

Today's devotion written by Charles Bertelsmeier, LifeWay Epping