Where He Leads… Will You Follow?
Psalm 139:23-24 (Amplified Bible)
23Search me [thoroughly], O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
24And see if there is any wicked or hurtful way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
I remember when I was in the military some friends and I decided to drive home for a four day roller, (a long weekend). We drove four separate cars and we were supposed to be following one another. But as we approached a certain stretch of highway, one of my friends broke from the plan and broke from following the lead car to go ahead, and take another route. Inadvertently, a cop was not seen as the car went speeding by and the car got a ticket. We had a plan and agreed we would stick together and follow the designated lead car, but that did not happen, as a result expense was incurred and time was wasted.
How often in life do we say to God, “Lord I will follow you,” and “where you lead I will follow?” “What you say do I will do,” only to speed ahead of God, try to stop short, take another route or stand still and not follow when the Master calls and says He has need of us. We want to get where God wants to takes us, but we often want to forgo the journey though. Even if we have not embraced the fact that the journey will be blood, sweat and tears, we often see it as the unknown and we do not like unknown or uncontrollable elements in our lives. For some of us it is a simple of act of not wanting to be in obedience to anyone, not even God. For others fear and apprehension precludes us from being able to move from our present position to actual engage the process of following.
If we could only grasp the fact that we can never get where we need to go, and get what we need to get from God if we don’t let Him LEAD! On any given day, on our own, most of us don’t know whether we are coming or going, then how in the world do we expect to get where God wants us to be. God is like a GPS, He knows the best routes, He knows how to avoid construction and detours, and He knows how to avoid spending money on tolls that we don’t need to spend or have to spend. If we could just see that follow God, no matter what “saves” us (yet again), we would gladly say where He leads I will follow. If we could do this journey on our own, what would we need God for, but we have to come to grips with the fact that we cannot be successful at this journey, and in reality we cannot even really make it on our own, or trying to lead the way ourselves…WE are blind by our own natural condition, so most likely we are going to end up somewhere, but usually nowhere close to where God intends or desires for us to be!
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