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Finding Reassurance in Proverbs 16:9
In this episode, we explore the wisdom of Proverbs 16:9, emphasising how God guide… (visit YouTube for more)
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In today’s verse, I detect just a little bit of sass in the writer of this verse. It’s Proverbs 16 verse 9. The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
The writer is saying, you think you know what you’re doing? You decide where you’re going. But really, it’s God who is working in your life, directing your path, if you’ll let him.
And I find this incredibly reassuring because I think left to my own devices, I would be very likely to wander far from the track. I’m not sure that my plans for my life are all that good. Certainly, things haven’t turned out quite the way that I planned them.
But I know, and this is my testimony, that God has been going before me, before my family, and He has been placing steady, stable rock beneath our feet, the Rock of the Lord God Himself.
We also know that the Word of God is a light to our path., So the steps that He’s placing for us are also lit. Not necessarily miles out to the road ahead, but where we need to put our feet right now, one step at a time.
Particularly over the last year as we’ve been finding our way as a family in the new normal, the new reality, having lost our son Morgan, we have had to depend consciously on God because the way ahead isn’t clear to us.
We look to the Lord to guide us, to give us those steps, so that we can try to keep in step with the Holy Spirit, looking for those guardrails that he places around us that we can cling on to, knowing that God has ordained a future for us, and that future is safe in his hands.
Lord God, I thank you for the reassurance that we read in this Proverb. We may not have the best of plans. We may make all sorts of mistakes in how we choose to live our lives. But you God, as we look to you, you give us direction and guidance and you give us an ultimate destination that is completely secure no matter how far we wander from your path. Amen.
