Father, I cannot express often enough how grateful I am for Your love. I don’t deserve it, but it lavished upon me without fail. One of many, many reasons to love You!
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I took this picture as I walked around our high school track last week. We had had a fair amount of rain and there were earthworms all over the track! I tried not to step on them but I’m sure a few got squished.
What I found interesting was that they all seemed to be going from the outside of the track and were making their way to the inside of the track. As I did my laps, I could tell that some were indeed making progress but here’s the thing…unbeknownst to them, their destination was leading them to almost certain death.
They were all traveling from oversaturated earth to what they supposed was more earth (hopefully less saturated!), but it was a dead-end in that our football field consists of artificial turf. There is no earth to be found!
As I continued to walk, I got to thinking, “Without direction, isn’t that what we do as human beings of this earth?” Often, we realize that we are not in the best of spots but when we try to move to more beneficial digs, we often find that we are in worse shape than where we started.
Now I could have stopped and picked up every worm I saw and placed it back in the grassy parameter. Some may have continued to prosper but others would inevitably have returned to their dead-end journey. But my timeframe was not in their favor, so for many, their fate was sealed.
Fortunately, we are in a much better situation than those worms. First of all, every one of us is in Jesus’ timeframe in that once and for all He gave Himself up for our salvation. We have a choice to not be stuck on the track that leads to death. Jesus offers us the option of not going forward with our limited knowledge. Instead, we can be guided by His Spirit every step of every day. Not dead ends but life eternal!
Lord Jesus, may we submit ourselves to your direction for our lives. You see every angle of every situation both in the hear-and-now and far into the future where we only see things in our limited perspective of what is right in front of our noses. Yielding to Your holy guidance is an absolutely no lose circumstance in which to find ourselves. Give us the wisdom and wherewithal to do so. Amen!

The Lord says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life.
….I will advise you and watch over you. Psalm 32:8 NLT

Trust in the Lord with all your heart;
….do not depend on your own understanding.
Seek his will in all you do,
….and he will show you which path to take. Proverbs 3:5-6 NLT

Nov 4th, 2020, Wed, 7:49 pm