Trail of Trials

Proverbs 3: 5, 6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Psalm 119: 105 Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light for my path.


Trusting in the Lord is not always easy. Here in proverbs, it says that if I trust in the Lord and I give glory to Christ in all circumstances, good or bad, He will make my path straight. However, it doesn't say that I won't rebel on my journey and try to find my own path nor does it say I won't trip on the rocks along the way. I admit that if my eyes are on God and I am reading His word, the likelihood of staying on the path and stepping over the rocks, is far more definite than when I am looking to myself for guidance. I have no light, but what the Lord gives me, and so I stand in darkness without Him.

God is so great! So merciful! So faithful! So eager to guide me! I am so undeserving.
The changes in me from 10 years ago to now is so apparent; I am blow away with His patience and perseverance. As unfaithful as I am, the Lord is EVER faithful and true.

Mike has been laid off for 5 weeks now. 8 - 9 years ago, when he was out of work, I cried daily and stressed to an extent I had never reached before. But since that time, God has worked on me and has shown me to depend fully on Him. I have spent maybe in an hour in total worrying of our current situation. Again, as always, God has been faithful. He has provided enough work to keep our family above water. (Matthew 6: 25-32 ) We are more important than the birds in the air, the flowers in the field. Doesn't God care for them? So wouldn't He care for us?

God doesn't say that if we trust in Him, everything will be great, no problems, no worries. He says to trust and all things will go according to His glory! If we have no pain or cares, how would we understand how GREAT God is? There would be nothing to compare it to. As heartbreaking as it is, we see children starving, we see abuse and gruesome acts from people. We stand and contemplate how someone could be so evil. We can't truelly fathom the depth of sin in them or ourselves. And yet to God, our sin of a small white lie is as ugly as the horrifying and vile abuse and murder of a child. ( pause for prayer of repentence)

The path will be rocky. The Lord can guide your feet and steady you when you begin to fall. You will stumble now and then, but the Lord will pick you up , dust you off and encourage you to try again. The trail is long, and the trials will be difficult but the Lord will never desert you. I say Amen to that!!