“GOD WILL SHOW YOU THE WAY”
By Pastor Mark Taylor
“And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk in it, when you turn to the right hand and when you turn to the left” (Isaiah 30:21).
The God we serve is not someone who has left us to guess about important decisions in our lives. All through the Bible He has given us examples of how he led the children of Israel in specific directions.
At times others will ask you to help them and you do not have the resources. When you cannot help them ask God to supply their needs. "When God's work is done in God's way, God will provide what is needed." Dr. Bob Tyson
“Truly I see that God is no respecter of persons” (Acts 10:34). When obstacles seem to prevent their movement, He moved the obstacles. “For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt” (Joshua 2:10).
“For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you until you had passed over, even as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea which He dried up from before us until we had gone over” (Joshua 4:23). He will remove obstacles that keep you from serving Him and being happy and successful.
In the New Testament Jesus reminded His disciples that He could make a way for them also: “Thomas said to Him, Lord, we do not know where You go, and how can we know the way? Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by Me” (John 14:5-6).
You and I face many important decisions in our lives. Sometimes we are not sure which way to turn. Sometimes we face roadblocks to our dreams and goals.
I would like to encourage you today to trust the Lord in helping you make a way to accomplish God’s will in your life.
I usually pray this prayer when I am trying to “find the way”: “Lord if this (thing, goal, desire) is your will for me, open the door and allowed me to go through it. Give me the wisdom and confidence from the Holy Spirit to know that my desires are in line with your will for my life. Lord, if this desire is not your will, please lock the door so that I cannot go through it. Keep me from making a wrong decision that will cause me problems.”
Sometimes we find ourselves in difficulty and we don't like It. God allows us to go through these situations to make us a stronger person and increase our faith.
I don't believe God causes bad things to happen to His children. They happen for many reasons. Sometimes because of wrong decisions we make, sometimes because of the free will and sin nature of others, and sometimes it is an spiritual attack from Satan. Regardless, God uses those things to build us into better people and draw us closer to Him.
Then I pray as our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ did: “If you would be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but yours, be done.” (Luke 22:42).
Sometimes the Lord removes it from me, and sometimes He reminds me of what He told Paul when he prayed for healing: “For this thing I besought the Lord three times, that it might depart from me. And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may overshadow me”
(2 Corinthians 12:8-9).
As one song put it: “Sometimes He calms the storm, and sometimes He calms me.”
One thing we can count on is that God is with us and wants to lead us and make a way for us to become victorious even in difficult times. Even if you are suffering from bad relationships, poor financial decisions, or health problems remember His words of encouragement to us:
“No temptation has taken you but what is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation also will make a way to escape, so that you may be able to bear it” (1 Corinthians 10:13). Go to God in prayer. Ask Him to give you the faith to endure your hardship until He makes the way.
Jesus said this about our life on earth: “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).
And we are reminded by God’s Word that even when things are going bad for us God will make a way for it to become good: “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28).
God has not only made a way for us to make it through this lifetime, but has made a way for us to go to Heaven. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
If you will give your life to Christ, He will make a way for you to go to a real place, with real people, and experience the real presence of God: “But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man, "the things which God has prepared for those who love Him" (1 Corinthians 2:9).
God also wants to use you to make a way for others. You have been given gifts and abilities you can use in service for God. “Give, and it shall be given to you, good measure pressed down and shaken together and running over, they shall give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you measure, it shall be measured to you again” (Luke 6:38).
Every time you do something for someone else they receive a blessing and so do you. There are people today that need you today. It may be something as simple as a kind word or an act of kindness. It may be something that requires your time, money, and talents. If God lays something on your heart, He is expecting you to do it. And in many cases, if you don’t do it, it want get done.
God is going to make a way for you today. “He gives power to the weary; and to him with no vigor; He increases strength. Even the young shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall; but those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint” (Isaiah 40:29-31).
