In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
--Proverbs 3:6
God has a perfect plan and will for your life. So how do you make sure you’re on the right path?
Make a daily appointment with God. Take time on a regular basis to seek and listen to Him. Give the very best part of your day to God and open His Word.
Expect peace and joy. When you trust and believe in God, you’ll find peace and joy.
Be willing to wait. If in doubt, you and I should wait on God. We may not be ready to move on. God may be preparing us for what’s ahead.
Keep moving forward. (And that’s not a contradiction to #3!) I’m talking about keep doing the will of God. So much of the will of God we already know. And God will not take us one step further until we obey what He has already commanded us to do.
Seek wise counsel. Find someone who knows and loves you… and who knows and loves God. Turn to a minister, pastor, family member, or friend.
Be bold. Take some risks. If you step out in faith and believe God, He will direct your steps.
What areas above need your focus today?
by Dr. Paul Chappell
“And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them. But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Luke 5:29–32
Once Levi had made the decision to leave his very profitable tax collection business to follow Jesus, he invited a large number of his friends and colleagues to come to a special dinner at his house so they could meet Jesus themselves. When Jesus went to this large gathering of hated and despised people it angered the religious leaders. They had no interest in spending time with sinners—not realizing they were sinners too.
In our day there are a great many people who think, like the Pharisees did, that they are just fine in their current state. They have no realization that they are hopelessly lost apart from Jesus. The message of the gospel does not resonate with them because they do not recognize their sin-sick condition.
But salvation is only for the lost. Only those who are willing to recognize the reality that they are lost without Christ will be willing to receive His offer of salvation.
There was considerable warning before Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington state in 1980. Officials warned residents to flee, but not all of them listened. An eighty-three-year-old man named Harry Randall Truman told an interviewer, “I don’t believe the mountain will hurt me.” He perished in the volcanic blast because he did not take his need for deliverance seriously. We must do our best to alert those around us of the danger facing their eternal souls before it is too late.
Today’s Growth Principle:
Take the time to find someone you can share the good news of salvation with today.
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