The path

"You search out my path..." Psalm 139:3

This morning I got stuck on this verse and ended up contemplating the meaning of it for our lives. What is the implication of this verse of scripture? God searches out our path. For me, as I consider it, it seems to me that I don't have to try too hard to "make something happen" for my life...I don't have to try hard to accomplish stuff in life...I need to relax and trust God. That's a novel concept. Think about it...it's like God is the trailblazer in front of us, clearing the clutter from the path set before us. We follow. God leads. God does the difficult work. We move forward. And yet, maybe even moving forward is difficult work for us, as we try to determine if this IS the right path. We wonder. We shuffle our feet. We sit down. We look around. We move forward. We stop again. "Am I going the right way?" we ask ourselves scratching our heads. Meanwhile God, searching out our path, says, "Psst...walk this way."

Let the beauty of this verse sink into your being today. Just soak your mind into the truth of it. Paul had a similar idea, "For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life" (Ephesians 2:10).

Thanks for reading.