Picking Up the Compass
"In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths." Proverbs 3:6 Do you know where you're going? Perhaps you're not even sure where you are. If you haven't picked up the compass in a while to take stock of where you are and where you're going, maybe this post was written just for you. Life can become so busy and circumstances demanding, challenging the course that we thought our life was on—the course of God's choosing, I mean. Often this busyness can redirect the path, even just a hair. But travelling any distance just a hair off-course can lead us to the wrong destination. The busyness of life can distract us, causing us to forget God's ways. Like the seed Jesus talks about in the Parable of the Sower which falls among the thorns, the cares of this world can choke God's Word in our lives, rendering us unfruitful. Matthew 13:22 states, "Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares o...