The need to be directed by God is real and pressing. Left to ourselves we are no better off than a rudderless ship or an auto without a steering wheel. It is not without reason that the Lord's people are so often termed sheep, for no other creature is so apt to stray or has such a propensity to wander. The Hebrew word for "direct" means "to make straight." How much each of us needs to beg the Lord to daily lay His quieting hand upon our feverish flesh!
We live in a world where everything is crooked. Sin has thrown everything out of joint, and in consequence confusion abounds all around us. A deceitful heart, a wicked world, a subtle devil ever seek to lead us astray and compass our destruction. How necessary it is, then, for God to "direct my paths". By giving to God our undivided confidence, not looking to any other for help and relief, we are trusting in the Lord. Turning to Him with childlike simplicity, there is no reasoning, but a simple taking of the parent's words at face value, fully assured that He will make good what He said; the child does not dwell on difficulties in the way, but expects a fulfillment of what is promised.
We are not to trust in our own wisdom or rely upon the dictates of human reason. The highest act of human reason is to disown its sufficiency and bow before the wisdom of God. To lean unto our own understanding is to rest upon a broken reed, for it has been deranged by sin. Yet many find it harder to repudiate their own wisdom than they do to abandon their own righteousness.
A fool is not mentally deficient, but the one who leaves God out of his thoughts and plans; a fool is a godless person. Contrariwise, the wise in scripture are not the hightly intellectual or the brilliantly educated, but those who honestly seek to put God first in their lives. God honors those who honor Him and He gives them good judgment. By teasuring up in his mind the doctrines, precepts, promises, exhortations, and warnings of Scripture and by diligently comparing himself with the rule by which he is to walk, the Christian grows into a habitual frame of spiritual wisdom. He aquires a gracious taste which enables him to judge of right and wrong with a degree of readiness and certainty.
Adapted from the book "The Nature of God" by Arthur Pink
Oh how important it is for me to remember this on a daily basis. And not just me but all Christians. With so many distractions and the busyness of our days we often rush through and fail to remember our pilgrimage here on this earth.
If only our national leaders understood this, but they keep throwing God out and in return have become a rudderless ship and an automobile without a steering wheel; a fool. The recent development in California over proposition 8....the marriage initiative and how just ONE activist judge ruled in favor of gay marriage, never minding that the people of California already voted against gay marriage. Obviously we are NOT living in a democracy but rather a world of darkness in which evil forces ever seek to laugh at God and mock Him. God will judge to preserve His glory; in His time.