| Finding the Way |
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To us the path of each day is always new – we have not passed this way heretofore, and we cannot tell what any hour may bring to us. But He knows all the way, for He went over every inch of it. There is no human experience which Christ does not understand. No suffering can be ours which He did not feel. No wrong can hurt us, but He was hurt far more sorely. Is the burden heavy? His burden was infinitely heavier, for He took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses, and bowed beneath the load of our sins. There is no phase of struggle, of suffering, of pain, of temptation, or of joy, with which He is unfamiliar. And knowing thus the way, from having sought it out for Himself, He is able to guide us in it.
We have a right, therefore, to make the prayer: “Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk.” Our prayer will be answered, too. There will be a hand extended to guide us, to open the path for us, and to help us over the hard pinches of the road.
But do we really need guidance? Are we not wise enough to decide what course it is best for us to take? Can we not find our own way in this world? Some people think they can, and they disdain to turn even to God for direction. They think they can get along without Him, so they make no prayer for direction, but follow the light of their own wisdom. No wonder they never find the way home. There is a story of a tourist in the Alps who refused a guide. He said he could find the way himself. So he went out alone in the morning, but he never came back. Life in this world is far more perilous than mountain climbing.
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