Psalm 119:133

Psalm 119:133

Direct my footsteps

It’s amazing to be able to look back over our lives and ponder the different occasions when divine leading and guidance have influenced our journeys. At the time we may have had no awareness as to what was happening. The house we bought just came up at the right moment and at the right price, we made the decisions based on facts at the time, only later do we see that the choice was already made for us! We chose that holiday where things happened that changed our lives. We took that job because it just seemed a right point to move on, now we see that it was at a turning point in our lives. Looking back, these multiple coincidences are now seen in a different light, it is as if someone greater and wiser was guiding our footsteps! 

I don’t know about you, but I can look back with astonishment and a deep sense of gratitude at the way I have been led and the number of occasions that I have been in the right place at the right time. Throughout all these years I have read the Word of God daily, and I now see that its influence was very strongly behind decisions that were made. We are no different to the Israelites who were led through the wilderness to the Promised Land. Their journey is well documented, and the Lord was with them every step of the way. He has been with us too, even to the point when He has “let no sin rule over us.” We have been delivered from the dark attentions of the enemy, our deviations from the path have always been arrested and we have been guided back to the correct route. Hallelujah! What a God we have! 

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