Psalm 27:11 Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me in a level path because of my foes.
This particular message came to me as I went about my weekly routine some time ago and God just spoke to me while I journeyed home from an appointment.
The main idea of this excerpt has to do with sticking to your route. Everyone has a specific destination to get to in the journey of life and it’s vital that we do not get carried away by what others are doing or the path they have chosen and lose sight of where God wants to take us.
As I sat in a subway going home, I remembered that I was supposed to join the subway with the letter A. A first subway came and wasn’t the letter A. Then another came and still wasn’t. Now I was getting impatient and I just wanted to join this one but I realized that I might get lost.
God told me when the subway I had to join finally came, that life is like a subway journey. Where you’re going determines the one you join. If you join the wrong one, you’ll miss your destination.
God’s destination, purpose, and the end He has mapped out for us has a route or path. It’s going to take a journey to get there. My mind went to another incident. It had snowed and the weather was so cold that I couldn’t wait for the right bus so I joined another one so I could get down somewhere and take another.
If I had waited for the right one, I would have just taken one bus. But guess what? I ended up taking two buses which wasted my time and I had to take the third one but the weather was too cold so I just took an Uber which was an extra cost.
This is the lesson: When you miss the right route, it would cost you much. Sometimes, in life, we become impatient because of a delay in our testimony or a difficult time we’re faced with like the cold weather. As a result, we follow what others are doing and where they’re going because it looks like they are making it.
Waiting patiently for the right path, would save time but wanting to take another route other than the one God has for you may further waste your time and you’ll incur costs.
In Jeremiah 29:11, God says, “For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you a hope and expected end.” Why not rely on Him for the right route?
Deuteronomy 13:5 That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. That prophet tried to turn you away from the way the Lord your God commanded you to follow. This means that going a different route is rebellion.
There are going to be circumstances that would try to take us out of God’s purpose and we must be alert. God would never lead you into a ditch, the end He has for us is always beautiful and we’d be thankful we pursued his way.
Stick to your God-ordained route.
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