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“Consider well the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established and ordered aright.” – Proverbs 4:26 (AMP)
Our beginnings and our endings shape us. Some moments we choose, and some seem to choose us. But it is in those middle spaces where we are free to follow or resist the Lord, and our paths resemble the choices.
Saul, like many of us, lost his direction. He veered off course. I’m not ever sure he braced for impact. His passion and ambition were poised inward and not upward. His GPS needed rerouting. When we choose judgement, condemnation, comparison, and isolation we are too off course and in need of a holy compass to deal with our brokenness (not a detour to excuses).
Conviction could likely be the intersection where we are made to slow down and address the Holy Spirit pulling us over to the shoulder on our Damascus Road. Practicing obedience might just lessen the need for those spiritual guardrails before suffering and loss accompany our self-propelled paths. Paul David Tripp says it well, “Often in moments of challenge the people of God panic because they are identity amnesiacs.” In other words, we forget who we are as children of God and we forget who God is, in His almighty power and power. Sadly, I’m pleading the 5th on this one.
But Hallelujah; God loves happy endings and offers them through grace and love. Paul found his pivot point; have you? God wants to be more than your roadside assistance. He wants to be your navigation system, your heart and engine, directing your path and speed for His glory. You might not end up where you planned, but you will certainly end up looking more like Him…the perfect destination!
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