Need Direction From God?

By Rebekah Montgomery

Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths.
Psalm 25:4

I do not see too well after dark. However, when it is both dark AND rainy, if you see me coming in a car, jump for the curb!

Consequently, when I had to pick up my son in an unfamiliar town at night during a thunderstorm, I was doing some serious praying: “Lord, You are going to have to show me the house. You’re going to have to point right to it.”

Following written directions, I drove right to the place. Pulling up beside the house, a bolt of lightning lit the sky and a finger of light pointed directly at the house. (God has such a sense of humor!)

But the house didn’t look ‘right’ to me. I had been there one before — in daylight — and outside the backdoor there should have been a huge dog in a kennel and an apple tree. I couldn’t see either one of these.

But like I say, I don’t see too well after dark.

So I drove around the neighborhood, praying, “Lord, You’re going to have to show me the house.” Frequently, I came back to this same house. Each time, I told God, “No, You’re wrong. It doesn’t look right.”

Finally, I stopped at a service station and called for my son’s friends to come get me. As it turned out, I was only a block away from their house, and you guess it: Theirs was the house to which God kept bringing me back. And the dog and apple tree were there — in the shadows.

How often we pray for guidance only to tell God, “No, that’s not the right way.” How often we pray for direction only to argue with God about the path He places us on.

We do not see too well into the darkness of the future. But the night is like day to Him. He knows the path we should take.

Today: Ask God for guidance for a particularly dark area of your life, and then begin listening for Him to speak and looking to Him for guidance.

©Rebekah Montgomery 2010