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 of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful."

Consider, too, what God's Word says to us in Jeremiah 8:6, "I have paid attention and listened, but they have not spoken rightly; no man relents of his evil, saying, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle."

The world around us stands in stark contrast to the way of God.  It teaches and preaches the importance of having things our way and doing things our way.  But God teaches us that the best way is His way.  He teaches us that to lose our life for Him is to, indeed, find it.  There is no better way.

Throughout this life it is important to pick up the compass and take stock of where we are.  We must each go to God and align ourselves along His path, putting aside anything that might take His place—first place in our lives.

"The craftsman stretches out his rule, He marks one out with chalk; He fashions it with a plane, He marks it out with the compass, and makes it like the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, that it may remain in the house" (Isaiah 44:13, NKJV).

Goodnight, Runners.