Dave’s Monday Blast – November 10, 2014

“The Lord will guide you continually, giving you water when you are dry and restoring your strength. You will be like a well-watered garden, like an ever-flowing spring”. Isaiah 58:11

I love this verse! Though the Bible never uses the word guidance, it does speak of a Guide (The Holy Spirit). We may seek guidance, but God provides something better…Himself.

Often we struggle to understand and discern God’s guidance for our lives. Although God rarely comes out and overtly tells us what to do; Men of INTENTION know that God is always leading and directing their lives. So how does He guide us? Consider these principles from Tyndale House Publishers:

God’s guidance concerns itself more with our steps than our overall journey.
God’s guidance is more preoccupied with the present than with the future.
God’s guidance has less to do with geography and more to do with morality.
God’s guidance is more interested in our character than our comfort.
God’s guidance is not insider information.
God’s guidance is that we pursue the Guide more than guidance.

Isn’t that good?!

In seeking God, His plan will be revealed. His way will lead back through His Word. If the step is more critical than the journey, and the present is of greater consequence than the future, and the Guide more essential than the guidance, what is needed? We need to know the Guide. God does not guide us magically; He guides us relationally. Therefore, the Bible is to be studied so we may become acquainted with the ways and thoughts of God. God’s aim is that we become his companions who walk with him. He already knows us. Now He wants us to understand and know Him. The more we understand Him, the more real our relationship will be with Him and the more likely we are to keep in step with Him in the direction He is taking us.