Proverbs 16:9 AMP
A man’s mind plans his way [as he journeys through life], But the Lord directs his steps and establishes them.
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We plan the way we want to live, but only God makes us able to live it.
God has given you free will. But we need to understand what that means. Basically, it means take God’s path in your life, or go your own way. In the word it literally says choose blessings or choose curse, and if you don’t know what to choose blessings.
So my son took me walking in the woods of Belle Isle. If you have ever walked in the woods it is beautiful with the trees spreading their limbs above you, the sun peeking through the leaf’s. There are toppled trees, and all kinds of vegetation growing all around you. Animals squirrels and birds and raccoons, and a host of bugs all watching you was you walk through. Kind of like the way heaven is watching you as you walk through your life.
As you begin the journey through the woods a path is clear. There is no sign that says this is the path, but you can see it. This is the safest and fastest way to get the forest by simply staying on the path. But of course, you have folk that want to go the hard, and walk aside of the path.
In life God has also cleared a path for you, one that you can be seen through your time in school, and beyond maybe its college or the military, maybe it’s starting a business but there is a path.
Many times, we make up our minds that we can find a better path than the one that has been shown to us. So we step off of God’s path and do our own thing, tripping over the stumps, sticking your foot into gopher holes, now we itching from the poison ivy that we stepped in just when we stepped off God’s path, you know what happens when you walking in a place you had no business walking in the first place. You know hurting your parents and people you love with your actions, catching a felony on your record, getting a DUI, spending time in jail for stealing, fathering a bunch of kids that you can’t be there to raise in the first place, having to trade your body for sex for the 8 kids you bore back to back with 8 different dudes, being trapped in toxic relationships, having to climb over fallen trees, you know things you just weren’t supposed to do.
Funny thing is the path you decided to step off is still there waiting, and you still wind up having to walk down that very path you got of in the first place. You still must finish the path to get to the place that God intended for you all along.
This is Tris No H reminding you to stay on the path and watch your life change. Next time we will talk about finding the path in the first place.
Peace
