This morning I read Psalms 25. What an amazing prayer to God for guidance. If I had this heart of seeking God’s guidance things would be different in my life. Psalms 25:4-5 (NCV) “Lord, tell me your ways. Show me how to live. Guide me in your truth and teach me, my God, my Savior. I trust you all day long.”
An excerpt from the Valley Morning Star:
High on a hill in a Midwestern town stands an old post office. The building just happens to be situated so that rain, falling on one side of the roof, flows down the hill into a stream, which joins a river that empties into the Great Lakes, and on into the Atlantic Ocean. Rain falling on the opposite side of the roof travels by way of a small brook into the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and on into the Gulf of Mexico. So tenuous is the position of a raindrop over this post office that the slightest breath of wind will determine the direction of its fate!
Do you ever have the feeling that your own fate is waiting to be determined by a small gust of wind or something so slight that your whole life could go in a different direction? Have you ever felt suspended tenuously between two choices and wished some gentle breeze would come along and make the decision for you?
There are many times in our lives that life can seem uncertain. Sometimes the circumstances and facts can be so tedious that the answer seems so difficult. If we start each day with the Psalmist prayer and ask God to tell us His ways, show us how to live, guide us in His truth and teach us things might become clearer. But I love the last sentence of this passage. I TRUST YOU ALL DAY LONG. I need to start doing this more. Sure it’s easier to trust God when it’s easy, but let’s start trusting Him all day long.
You know what I think is funny…regardless of where the rain drop hits the roof on the little post office mentioned above, it is bound for a journey. If rain drops had feelings they would sure look forward to the prize of finding their destination in the Gulf or Atlantic. Maybe it’s time that we focus on heaven and realize that regardless of the way the storm blows us we have a God that we can hope in….all day long.
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