My personal guide

But I'll take the hand of those who don't know the way, who can't see where they're going. I'll be a personal guide to them, directing them through unknown country. I'll be right there to show them what roads to take, make sure they don't fall into the ditch. These are the things I'll be doing for them - sticking with them, not leaving them for a minute. Isaiah 42:15,16

This has certainly been my experience of God, a personal guide. There have been many times in recent years in my life when I have been in an 'unknown country'. Circumstances I never dreamed I would be in, and they weren't what you would call positive circumstances! They were circumstances in which no person around me could give me a full understanding of what was happening, or likely to happen in the future. God was the only place I could go to.

In those times, I felt like God was literally taking my hand, leading me to the right people at the right time, giving me the right words to speak and write. There were some very very difficult moments. Sometimes I felt like I was only a step away, but I didn't fall in the ditch, because of God's guidance and grace.

For my part I had to totally surrender to God. I had to acknowledge that I had no answers, no plan, no solution to resolve these situations. I was completely reliant on Him. It was a time of me moving to a new level of trusting God, to knowing more and more in my heart that He does work all things together for good for those who are called according to His purpose.

Question for today, do you believe that God can be your personal guide through life, helping you through the good and the bad times? And if so, are you going to let Him be your guide?