Comment on Morning January 03 of "Daily Light on Daily Path"

 

 

Dear friend,

 

To be able to move from place to place show that we are still alive. But life is not just about moving, but also about where, in which direction, we are moving toward. So, one can be moving, but in the wrong way.

 

To move in the wrong way not only can cause harm to oneself, but also harm to people around us and to the environment. The wrong way is a way against nature, against what God intent everything to be according to their respective, original, created natures. God allows things to go wrong in the course of their development for the glory and praise of His own Name. Then, He reveals that He has chosen a people to lead "them forth by the right way." (Psa. 107:7)

 

If you and I are of such people, we are indeed blessed. No matter what we may have previously imagined ourselves to be blessed, when He first found us in the wrong way, we were "in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness." (Deu. 32:10) Such a place has no way, yet we have our mirages of utopia. We were like Jacob, "led .. about, .. instructed .., kept .. as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the Lord alone did lead him." (Deu. 32:11-12) 

 

The right way is not a way without restoration. We often go astray and bring much grieves to our own souls. "He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake." (Psa. 23:3) Our own name is not worthy of anything, but the Name of God is worth everything. If for His own Name's sake, He would preserve us, then indeed we will be preserved and are, indeed, blessed beyond words. Then what is death for us. We should not fear. "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." (Psa. 23:4)

 

It must be the wrong way, if a man design a garden where no water can ever reach. You whom God teaches and leads "shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not." (Isa. 58:11)

 

Are you being led in the right way?

 

Do read the Holy Scriptures for yourselves in the free Daily Light on Daily Path for this day at http://soshine.blogspot.com/2008/01/daily-light-on-daily-path-january.html#Jan03M.