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| “The path of the righteous is like the morning sun…” |
| —Proverbs 4:18a |
Have you ever awakened with a start in the early morning hours just before dawn and for a brief moment felt the panic of not knowing where you are? The confusion of such a moment seems terrifying.
From 1986 through 2003, I traveled extensively on business. During each of those years, I was on the road an average of 39 weeks out of 52. I logged over 1,250,000 miles on Delta Airlines alone. Staying in so many different hotel rooms, I did occasionally awaken and not know where I was. I felt that moment of panic. I sometimes would wish that the early light of morning would flood in through the window, instead of merely peek around the edges of the closed curtains.
As believers in the life-transforming power of God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, we don’t always know where the pathway God has laid out before us will lead us. But, we can be certain that it leads us where He wants us to go. And, we can be certain that He will always brighten the light we need to find our way. All we have to do is simply wait patiently for Him to act.
The closer we draw to God, the more we purposefully surrender our will to Him, the more of His light we will have available to illuminate our pathway. We must draw closer, ever closer, to God until we experience what King Solomon wrote about in Proverbs 4:18:
The path of the righteous is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter till the full light of day.
God has given us another new day in which to serve Him. Let us embark on this new day with a renewed commitment to glorify Him through everything we do. We can move forward with the assurnace that He will brighten our pathway.
Based on a post from Friday, March 13, 2015
