Steps……

 

♪Turn your eyes upon Jesus,♫

♫Look full in His wonderful face,♪

♪And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,♫

♫In the light of His glory and grace.♪

 

Do you ever have days, in your life, when your footing is so unsure, that you are feel the need to be extra careful, because  you want to make sure every step (whether great or small), you take that HE is definitely the one directing it…. 

Oh, the days in the last year, I have felt this way, going thru my divorce, raising Jacob alone, and struggling to find HIS path, for my life…

But then HE reminds me that in HIS mercy, HE does direct our steps…

Psalm 37:23 (KJV)

²³ The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.

that righteousness goes before HIM ….

Psalm 85:13 (KJV)

¹³ Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

and with such infinite care and compassion….. that HE enlarges  them so we will not slip…..

2 Samuel 22:37 (KJV)

³⁷ Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip. 

Psalm 18:36 (KJV)

³⁶ Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

Psalm 37:31 (KJV)

³¹ The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

and also numbers them…..

Job 31:4 (KJV)

⁴ Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

Job 14:16 (KJV)

¹⁶ For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

Our steps are ordered in HIS Word….

Psalm 119:133 (KJV)

¹³³ Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

How many days, I have woke up early, with knots in my chest, fearful of starting a new day, wondering which direction to take…..

fearing the future, fearing the effects of my past (the divorce), fearing the feelings of doubt and confusion in my heart….

. and how I so needed HIS guidance and direction, only to feel like HE was turning a deaf ear to my sorrows…. 

Then again, HE reminds me……

HE IS Omnipotent (HE IS ALL POWERFUL!!!) , Omnipresent (HE IS EVERYWHERE!!!), 

HE IS IN EVERYTHING, including my sorrows…

HE IS EVERYTHING!!! 

That it is my feelings and emotions coming into play, that my flesh is always fighting against me, and my relationship to the SAVIOUR, so in my imperfect state, I am the one who strays….. 

Matthew 26:41 (KJV)

⁴¹ Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Galatians 5:17 (KJV)

¹⁷ For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

And that I just need to remember that HE promised HE would never leave, nor forsake, and HE never moves; it is ME who moves….

Hebrews 13:5 (KJV)

⁵ Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.