God's Instruction

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Psalm 32:8 says, “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.”

     “I know the way.  It  is just down the road a little piece and we will be there.”  Yes, famous last  words before  you have to say, “I guess I will stop and ask for directions.”  It is especially true when traveling in a city that you lived in ten years ago and now they have added some new building, torn down some buildings that you knew in the past and then added a few traffic circles and an extra road or two.  I once had to do a funeral in a very small town in West Virginia and finally needed to stop and ask directions which seemed rather difficult to follow.  We had to go to a certain type of field, then past a barn with a quilt painted on the side of it, down a narrow road on a hill and then we would see the church off to our right.  We did find it even though it was not even on the gps system of the car.

     We can be thankful that God has the perfect GPS for life.  The above passage promises us that God will be our instructor and that as an instructor, He will teach us in the way that  we should go.  For many, they long to find out the will of God for their lives and just how they should go through life day by day, hour by hour.  There have been several times in my life when a change of direction was needed and it wasn’t just this way or that way, but  quite often, there was necessary to choose between three routes.  As you study God’s Word you become convicted by the Holy Spirit in regard to certain things that may be present in  your life and you know that they are contrary to the will of God.  Such things as language become clear when we read that we are not to take the Lord’s name in vain.  So, we use words that  say the same   thing, only a little softer than the actual cuss word.  Or we say immediately after it, “forgive my cussing.”  The word “Gosh” is just a softer word than the word, “God.”  It seems to not be saying the same thing as the phrase often used as an oath.  As soon as you are born again, God begins to teach you in the way that you should go, such as your prayer life, your choice of entertainment, the things that you desire, the amount of time you spend in the Bible and what you would rather be found doing should Christ suddenly return.  If you are prone to quickly dust  off your Bible when you see the preacher coming and place it on the coffee table after you found it, or to quickly hide certain magazines, then you may need to make some adjustments in your life.  Yes, God does indeed teach us plainly in His Word how to live.  Are we taking  heed to the instruction?  Praise God today for His t itching  us how we should live this earthly life.