NEVER-ENDING STEPPING STONES
The path of the upright is a highway. Proverbs 15:19
A woman who takes the time to listen to and obey the voice of God is never stuck. Every step she takes is leading somewhere. No gesture is ever inconsequential. No task performed is ever hollow. No pain is ever senseless. Everywhere she places her foot is strategic even though she may be unaware of the significance. Solomon said so. "The upright one is on a path that makes up a highway."
Satan's urgent agenda for us as God's children is to cause us to distrust God. If he can alienate our affections, he knows we will lose heart and abandon the way of faith. One of his biggest lies is the one that says, “This is a dead end. You're trapped." Oh, how well I know. I believed that and was crippled by a severe depression in the early nineties. Everywhere I looked, I saw traps instead of doorways. I didn’t know that they were a mirage, a smokescreen. If only someone had told me to call Satan’s bluff with a well-fashioned arrow of the word of God.
Now, two decades later, I'm still on a soapbox to declare that each ‘trap’ was really a doorway into glory. I was delivered from my wordlessness when I decided to embrace the truth that God is never cornered, and since He lives in me and orders my steps, I’m not trapped either. Facing the conflict of my core beliefs and then choosing to believe God over my own thoughts, I was freed to move again. Slowly, I began to see that every pro-active step I took by faith was profitable. It proved that there were indeed invisible doorways I couldn’t see before. Everywhere I placed my foot led me to another stepping-stone related to my destiny.
It's still true for each of us today. The best of life awaits us even in these difficult times ~ if I define the ‘best’ as opportunities to showcase God’s glory. I intend, until Jesus returns, to become an spirited older lady who teaches others how to pray strategically, embrace the scriptures passionately, and love God whole heartedly. I don’t know how well I will sing in another decade or two but I will always play the piano, my flute and wooden recorders. My dream is that God will continue to anoint me to be a 'pied piper' who marches on the kingdom's highway, calling out to others on the sidelines to step onto the path behind me. My once compromised faith-walk has become a banner-waving parade for the glory of God.
The destiny You write for every daughter is beautiful. Show me today's stepping stones. In Jesus' name, Amen
For more from Christine Wyrtzen and Jaime Wyrtzen Lauze, please visit www.daughtersofpromise.org
Originally published Monday, 14 October 2024.
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