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Walking in Safety

How many of us who either have, or have raised, small children, remember those early morning walks through the house.  The sun hasn't risen yet and there are still no lights on.  You're tip-toeing through the house because you want to enjoy a few minutes of silence and hopefully a cup of coffee before your tornado of a toddler wakes up.  Then as you round the corner to enter the kitchen it happens - you step on something that feels at the time like broken glass on top of hot coals with jagged metal stuck in there somehow as well.  In all reality it's probably a leggo or some other small toy, but man that hurts!

I think that happens to us in real life as well.  Even when we are in the safety of God's will, trusting His guidance, following His path, just like walking through the general safety of our own homes - sometimes we step on a stone.  Perhaps there is a trial that we didn't see coming, or we didn't want to face.  Sometimes we are reluctant to accept the fact that while the next step may get us where we need to go, it may be painful.  But just because that step hurts, it doesn't mean we stop.

Maybe your living room floor and path of life are both clear right now, maybe your steps have been pain free with no leggos jabbed into your feet, maybe the lights are shining clearly for you right now.  But if not, continue to trust God.  Continue to take the next step the He calls you to.  Yes, it may be painful, it may hurt.  But just like that morning cup of coffee, if you don't take that next step, you'll never attain the prize.

"Trust in the Lord with all your hear, and do not lean on your own understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths." - Proverbs 3:5-6
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