Watch your step!

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 Been seeing a lot about paths the last couple of days and I'm mindful of some things after that today. I talk a lot about how God moves very Providentially in my life.  I know some, even in my own family, don't believe that for a minute.  That's OK, it's not their walk, it's mine and for His glory and good purpose God relates to me that way.  I'm not the only one, and it's not the only way He does.  He still uses circumstances to show me where to step.  Sometimes He uses them to warn me where not to step.

Lately, though, He's been complimenting those things with a Bible verse.  I told y'all, I think, the other day when He gave me a verse in the middle of the night which I thought was about tithing and had nothing to do with tithing.  It was about writing things down in a remembrance to God.  I just re-read that verse and remember something He told me to write down.

That's kind of important because I'm believing God for something and I am in a waiting season.  In that wait, it can be easy to do some things like put the thing I'm waiting for in the wrong place in my life.  Even that can become an idol if I'm more focused on the promise than the promise-giver.  The other danger is that I can start to doubt and make God out to be a liar.  God, as we know, does not lie.  I'm trying to remember both things and I'm grateful for the reminder of the thing that God had me write down.

The "write it down", well that was Providential.  So was the receipt of the verse...in the middle of the night...and I'm not smart enough to make that up.  So when I was looking over verses about where to step, the Holy Spirit prompted me to another verse that firmed up something else....where not to step.  

It seems God is kind of adding to the things He's using to guide me these days.  A little thing here, a little not so coincidental thing there, and then a Bible verse to help bring meaning to the first two things.  Or me speaking a concept over my life and having God reinforce it with the actual Scripture verse sometime during the day.  It's all adding up to a growing relationship with some new things added as I'm waiting for whatever is going to happen.

On the wall in my bedroom, placed where it's one of the last things I see at night and one of the first in the morning is Proverbs 3:5-6 and if I were to add another verse in my bedroom it would be Psalms 138:8 from the NLT.  It's not up to me to work out the plans for my life.  It's God's plan, not Dale's.  I tried Dale's plan and expected God to bless it and I found out the very hard way that it doesn't work out like that.  If Dale's plan is God's plan (such as moving to the Oregon coast when I retired), well, Dale's plan is gonna work out well because it was God's plan in the first place!  

I'm hopeful that some serious preemptive prayer about where not to step will help me avoid an uncomfortable situation.  If it does, praise God.  If not, then I will trust God to give me the right words to say no.  

Watch your step.  It's ugly out there.


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