Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and song from Clay Crosse, Bob Carlisle, and Bebe Winans singing I Will Follow Christ ... powerfully singing of how we Christians must be committed to following Christ down the roads of life … no matter how dark they may be.
The Roads of Life - Often Dark and Foreboding
=============Highlight Verse[s]: Isaiah 42:16 [NKJV] ... 16 I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, And crooked places straight. These things I will do for them, And not forsake them.
… We have to trust that God will fulfill this promise in our lives.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Isaiah 42:10-17 [NKJV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… God, thru Isaiah, promises to show us the way - HIS way - down the paths of life.
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Reference Passage : … Psalm 119:105 [NKJV] … 105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
… God gives us His word to light the dark roads ahead.
Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NKJV] … 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.
… Solomon shows us the way to travel the roads of life … to trust that God will ALWAYS be there to guide us.
Reference Passage : … Matthew 28:20b [NKJV] … 20 … and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
… Jesus promises His presence in leading us down the dark roads of life … so why not follow Him?
Reference Passage : … Hebrews 13:5b [NKJV] … 5 … For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
… God’s promise shows us that we can ALWAYS trust Him to be with us.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, David H Roper, uses a personal experience to illustrate that we need to trust God when we have to drive down the dark roads ahead in life. … The ODB author wrote: People ask me if I have a five-year plan. How can I plan five years “down the road” on a road I’ve never traveled? [see photo]
I think back to the 1960s when I was a minister to students at Stanford University. I’d been a physical education major in college and had a lot of fun, but I left no record of being a scholar. I felt wholly inadequate in my new position. Most days I wandered around the campus, a blind man groping in the darkness, asking God to show me what to do. One day a student “out of the blue” asked me to lead a Bible study in his fraternity. It was a beginning.
I think we’d all agree that some of the roads that we’ll travel in life are going to be dark (see photo), … maybe even scary. But if we know and believe in the truths espoused by God’s word [see above], we should be able to do what the linked song sings … and that is, … follow Christ since He has promised us to be with us - ALWAYS - and to light up our paths, especially by His word.
The question is … do we believe His promises; and will we follow Him down the dark roads of life? … Good question; … and I’m praying we do trust Him and follow Him … no matter what!!
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, ... for promise to shine a light of truth on our paths ahead.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me, to trust that God’s word will light up the dark roads ahead. … Amen
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