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A Continuation of Thoughts

As I finished writing the post yesterday and let it sit all night long, it felt unfinished. There was more that didn't fit into that particular writing.

There are two other ways in which Proverbs 3:6 is encouraging to me (at the moment, anyway). His straight, not mine runs in so many more directions than just the one I shared yesterday, directions I don't know or understand.

I have a dear friend who I don't get to see that often. When we talk and she asks what my plans are, I usually end up telling her I have no idea! I can't see what's ahead, and I don't know what God wants me to do. She usually says to me that I just need to love God and then do what I want. Because if I'm loving God, then He's going to work it all out. She uses the analogy of a cruise ship. There are a lot of things one can do on board -- swimming, sleeping, eating, playing, etc. But no matter which activity you're engaged in, the ship is still heading in the same direction. Am I loving God? Am I trying to follow Him? Then pick something that's in front of you and trust Him to work it out.

Proverbs 3:6 seems to hold that same idea. If I acknowledge God and know Him in everything and in every way, the result is that He uses everything to work together. Sometimes there is choice, and if I'm giving it all to God, then the decisions I make are being orchestrated by Him and woven together into a path that is straight. God takes the choices I make in faith and trust and turns them into a straight path.

Secondly, and in the same vein as above, is this: I'm only human. So let's say I do mess up (which I will). There are two opportunities in front of me, and I'm just not sure which one I should do. I've prayed about it, but I still just don't know, so I just pick one. What if I picked the wrong one? God wanted me to do the first and I chose the second. But I was trying to follow Him, I was trying to go where He was leading. I acknowledged Him and sought Him, but I went a way that makes the path crooked. Then He makes the path straight. He takes that choice, that choice I was so unsure of, and puts His straight path together. He works it out. I was trusting Him, yet still went to the side of the path. And still, He makes the way straight.


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

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