| Finding the Way |
Chapter 2 |
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We are to pray to be divinely led not only in large matters, but in the smallest – every hour, every moment. “Order my steps,” is a prayer in one of the Psalms. How it would change all life for us if we would continually pray thus! You will have some hard thing to do tomorrow, and uncongenial and distasteful task. You will not want to do it. But it is God’s will, and that makes it a radiant deed, like holiest service of angel before God’s throne. You will have to endure something hard or humiliating tomorrow – some unjust treatment, some unkindness. Your nature will revolt. “I cannot do that,” you will say. But it is God’s will that you should endure it, and endure it sweetly, patiently, songfully, and that changes it for you – it is a glorious thing to do God’s will.
We will always find God’s will for us by always doing the next thing. No matter how small it is, it will take us a step forward in God’s way. Doing His will in little things will show us other steps to take, and thus will lead us on till all the way has been passed over. The word of God is said to be a lamp unto our feet – not a great sun shining high in the heavens, illumining a hemisphere, but a little lantern that we may carry in our hand and hold so that its light shall fall on the bit of road on which we are walking. It will not lighten a whole mile for us at a time, but it will always make the next step clear, and as we take that, the next one, and so on, until all the miles of our journey have been shown to us.
If only we will do the will of God, as it is made known to us, little by little, moment by moment, we shall be led step by step, and at last shall reach home.
“O Master, point Thou out the way,
Nor suffer Thou our steps to stray;
Then in the path that leads today
We follow Thee.
“Thou hast passed on before our face;
Thy footsteps on the way we trace;
O keep us, aid us by Thy grace;
We follow Thee.”
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