Day 92:: Your Word

(I'm back!!!!)

I loved reading this passage in The Message...I'd never done that before. I suppose it was refresshing because I'd grown used to them in the other translations.

"By your words I can see where I'm going; they throw a beam of light on my dark path." I love that illustration. They don't throw all the house lights on so I can see all that is around me and where I'll end up...they throw a light on the PATH that is otherwise dark...a PATH is a single-direction...a PATH heads ONE WAY to ONE PLACE...and with light on it, I can head in the SINGLE direction God is leading me to the place He wants me to be. The concern here isn't to have everything KNOWN or the future assured, it is to "see where I'm going." As I prayed through this Psalm, I was so thankful that I have this tool to use to SEE the path God has laid out for me and not to stumble and lose the path because of darkness. It reminds me of hiking in the dark. The summer I worked in Colorado we did tons of sunrise and sunset hikes so you ended up walking either up or down in complete darkness...except your handy dandy flashlight. The flashlight did not show you all of your surroundings, so you couldn't be sure if there were creatures roaming around you and you definitely couldn't evaluate any alternate paths...you could just see step after step ahead on the path that was promised to be successful...and so you USED your flashlight (duh!) and you stayed on the path (duh!) because it was so incredibly dark and dangerous if you didn't.

Can I think about my life like that? That I need to USE my flashlight and I need to stay on God's path because it is so incredibly dark and dangerous if I don't?

Thank you God, for your Light!