Amen,
One day my husband was out hunting with his brothers and father deep in the forest. In our region a person could get lost for many days, wondering around in circles, sometimes never making it out.
While they were hunting, the brothers went up into the forest each several feet apart to come down driving the deer toward their father and another brother who was down on the road. This method often got them a deer or two for the season, it was called a "drive."
It was becoming dark, so their father called to those out in the forest to come in now. When it gets dark out there the only thing to do is sit tight until morning, there is no way to know if one could find their way out in the dark. To make matters worse it began to rain which seems to make it even darker.
My husband began to walk and walk and walk. He couldn't understand why he wasn't reaching the road. After three times of passing what looked like the same stump, he realized that he was going in circles and would never be able to see the way out, he began to panic.
All of a sudden before the panic became full blown, he saw a light coming through the trees, it seemed to be going back and forth across the trees. My husband realized that his father was shinning the flash light across the trees knowing my husband was lost and could not find his way out. My husband began to follow the light until he reached the road.
My husband has used this real life example a few times when speaking to young people. He was not saved at that time, but God gave him this story for after he became born again as an example to him and others he would speak to.
He told the young people how utterly stupid it would have been to become stubborn, ignore his father's light and continue to wander in the dark forest, maybe to never be found.
I love these verses in the Bible that show us to take each step in faith and that's all we need, that one step. When God is ready for the next step, He will shine His light again so that we can step into the light. When we shine a flashlight on the ground in pitch blackness we shine our light out a few feet but we can only take one step at a time. God gives us one step, he does not shine into the distance for us to see, we must take each step by faith and trust Him for all the other steps, knowing that He already knows whats in the distance, but we don't have to. That's what trusting Him is all about.
Some people only trust Christ for their salvation, but do not trust Him for everything after that. God knows this and must bring situations to our life that force us to seek Him. Each new experience teaches us to build our faith for more trust.
Proverbs 3:4-6 "…4 So you will find favor and good repute In the sight of God and man. 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.…"
Bottom Line: Ask Him, trust Him and wait for the next instruction.
One day my husband was out hunting with his brothers and father deep in the forest. In our region a person could get lost for many days, wondering around in circles, sometimes never making it out.
While they were hunting, the brothers went up into the forest each several feet apart to come down driving the deer toward their father and another brother who was down on the road. This method often got them a deer or two for the season, it was called a "drive."
It was becoming dark, so their father called to those out in the forest to come in now. When it gets dark out there the only thing to do is sit tight until morning, there is no way to know if one could find their way out in the dark. To make matters worse it began to rain which seems to make it even darker.
My husband began to walk and walk and walk. He couldn't understand why he wasn't reaching the road. After three times of passing what looked like the same stump, he realized that he was going in circles and would never be able to see the way out, he began to panic.
All of a sudden before the panic became full blown, he saw a light coming through the trees, it seemed to be going back and forth across the trees. My husband realized that his father was shinning the flash light across the trees knowing my husband was lost and could not find his way out. My husband began to follow the light until he reached the road.
My husband has used this real life example a few times when speaking to young people. He was not saved at that time, but God gave him this story for after he became born again as an example to him and others he would speak to.
He told the young people how utterly stupid it would have been to become stubborn, ignore his father's light and continue to wander in the dark forest, maybe to never be found.
I love these verses in the Bible that show us to take each step in faith and that's all we need, that one step. When God is ready for the next step, He will shine His light again so that we can step into the light. When we shine a flashlight on the ground in pitch blackness we shine our light out a few feet but we can only take one step at a time. God gives us one step, he does not shine into the distance for us to see, we must take each step by faith and trust Him for all the other steps, knowing that He already knows whats in the distance, but we don't have to. That's what trusting Him is all about.
Some people only trust Christ for their salvation, but do not trust Him for everything after that. God knows this and must bring situations to our life that force us to seek Him. Each new experience teaches us to build our faith for more trust.
Proverbs 3:4-6 "…4 So you will find favor and good repute In the sight of God and man. 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.…"
Bottom Line: Ask Him, trust Him and wait for the next instruction.
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