At some point in all of our lives, we've wandered through a dark room, confidant that we know where all the furniture is, only for our shins to discover that some piece of furniture has been moved or something has been left out. It's a painful reminder that things are not always the way we think they are!
As we go through life, we often have similar revelations. We think we know how things are going to go, or what a relationship is like, or what the next year of our life is going to be like. And then, sometimes painfully, we discover that things are not as we think they are. We're in the dark.
God's word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. When we follow God's word, the promise isn't that things will be easy. The promise is that we'll have the confidence of children of God to adapt to changing circumstances. When we anchor our lives in Christ, then the things that we stub our toes on in life aren't as damaging, because our true treasure is in heaven. When we've placed the fullness of our trust in God, then we are better able to deal with the storms of life, even the most painful ones. We incline our hearts to God, committed to the end, because that's the only way we survive through the end and find ourselves in eternity, as we reach the end of the path and discover that the end is only another beginning.
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