"Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a life to my path."
There are many times when I look around the world, and I just don't understand what's going on. I see that there are plenty of people who say that they are Christian, and yet they look at all the other people around them and pass judgment upon them as if that is how we should respond to people who don't fit the way we think or the way we act.
There are many times when I see people struggling all around me. I see people struggling with pain and suffering. Maybe the person has lost a job. Maybe the person isn't getting the food that they need. Maybe the person is coming to me with a hand outstretched asking "can you spare any money?" What am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to respond? I even say to myself, "I just don't have the time to think about you right now."
There are many times when all this confusion is churning about me, and I hear the gracious word of God. These words show me where I come up short. These words tell me what I've done wrong. These words tell me how I can live and act. AND...AND these words tell me of God's steadfast love for me even in the midst of everything I do or don't do. These words guide me back to the place where I know who God is. God is the one who names and claims me, staying beside me through all of life's storms.
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