Saturday, March 2, 2013

My perfect path


Sarah Young focuses on the word "path"; especially appropriate, I think, since we have considered this experience a journey from the start.  She reassures me, through the words of Jesus, that I'm on the right path even though it doesn't seem so at times.  And my path has been designed especially for me.
"Therefore it's a lonely way, humanly speaking."-Sarah Young (Jesus Calling).
She points out that the end of my path will not be visible right now since it has been designed to walk on a day by day, moment by moment basis.  No worries, though.  I have the best Companion to accompany me along the way.
"Often God seems to place His children in positions of profound difficulty, leading them into a wedge from which there is no escape...
It does seem perplexing and very serious to the last degree, but it is perfectly right...
He will not only deliver you, but in doing so, He will give you a lesson you will never forget, and to which, in many a song and psalm, in after days you will revert.  You will never be able to thank God enough for having done just as He has."-Streams in the Desert (Author Unknown).
And, of course, again I find the perfect prayer in The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions:
"I hang on Thee; I see, believe, live when Thy will, not mine, is done...
If Thy mercy make me poor and vile, blessed be Thou!
Help me to honor Thee by believing before I feel, for great is the sin if I make feeling a cause of faith..."
How beautiful!
So today I am thanking my God for the unique path on which he has placed my feet.  How perfect is His path for me!

Wow...introspection is good but "extrospection" felt even better!
(Rats...I thought I'd invented that word but it's in the dictionary.)

"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path."-Psalm 119:105 (KJV).
"Your Word is a lamp to walk by and a light to illumine my path."-Psalm 119:105 (NET).

On the health front:
Tender abdominal area and dry, dry, itchy skin but that's about it so far.  Of course I haven't been further than ten feet from my bed so things could change, but at the moment I am thanking God for small mercies.

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