You have made known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
--Psalm 16:11
In the study I am doing on Max Lucado's book, He Still Moves Stones, Max writes about how we walk through this life blind. We do not know where we are going or what the future holds. God is guiding us, but we are easily distracted by all the other noise around us. Max is right. Sometimes it is hard to focus on God's voice when our society, our colleagues, and even our friends and family tell us to go different directions. We have to filter out so much noise to hear God's still small voice whispering to us.
Through all of the chaos and mixed messages of the world, God has given us the path of life. What great news for all of us blind people! God is with us to show us the right way to go. From my experience, the best way to discern God's will within the mess of our daily lives is to faithfully stay in God's word. His word is where He has laid out the path of life. Logic tells us that we can't recognize the voice of someone we don't know. Reading and meditating on His word and maintaining an active prayer life is how we get to know God and how we learn to pick His voice out of the noise around us.
When we invite God into all areas of our lives, we will learn to stay on the path of life. On the path of life we will find a deeper joy and peace than we could ever have imagined--far deeper than the superficial and transient happiness that the world offers. The path of life is not an easy road, but when walk it our joy and peace follow us into our pain. Our joy and peace are part of our eternal experience, holy side effects of staying in God's presence. And that is what God wants for us. He wants us to walk with Him on the path of life and feel the joy of being in His presence today. Our joy with Him now gives us a glimpse of heaven while we're still on earth and some days that is all the hope we need to persevere.
Posted by Kim at March 27, 2007 09:26 AM