Earlier today, I spent some time with family and some friends at a public park. Usually there are tiny moneys that show up in the evenings but this time they came early and were jumping from one tree to the other playing or grooming each other. A made the mistake of mentioning to my six-year-old niece when she and her father joined us that the monkeys were around.She had all manner of plans for us to go look for the monkeys.One of those was to ask me to take her to the wash room.
It’s been drizzling on occasion the last few says so the park is turning green and beautiful. The paths are well covered by a contrasting colour yellow made by the dry fallen leaves. As we were heading to the washrooms, she got fascinated by butterflies and let go of my hand to run after them but she asked again,”Will the monkeys be back?” She is a brave girl and has in the past tried to give a hi-five to one of those tiny creatures. As we walked her hand in mine, we got to a cross roads of sorts with the single path diving into two. I noticed she was pulling me to turn to the left side but I knew the route to the wash room and the shortest route was taking the right turn.
“Let’s walk this way aunty“,she pleaded but I knew the right route and the more she insisted pulling me to the left, the firmer I got.
“Mum, this is the right path to where we were going“I chided her.
She then pleaded that she will be able to see the butterflies on her preferred path and eventually confessed that, she indeed was looking for the monkeys. I overruled her and without resisting much we went to the washroom and joined the rest without much fighting from her. It’s as if she forgot the issue of the monkeys all together.
On reflection are we not like my niece every so often in our walk with God? He has promised to lead us and will often invite us to put our hand in His and follow His lead. As he takes us to where He desires for us to be, we sometimes get distracted as we take the walk with Him. Just like my niece was with the butterflies. We may get to a cross roads and the path on the right looks better lusher than the path on the left.We start pulling in a different direction than the one He is leading us. Isaiah 30:21 Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying,“This is the way, walk in it,”Whenever you turn to the right hand Or whenever you turn to the left.
And you know what? Sometimes and just like I did with my niece,God as a father overrules us. He however does so out of love, being the all-knowing God and because He sees beyond what we see.
Isaiah 42:6 reads…. I, the Lord, have called You in righteousness, And will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the Gentiles,. I have been ruminating over Verse 16 for some weeks now and which says…. I will bring the blind by a way they did not know;I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, And crooked places straight. These things I will do for them, And not forsake them.
Trust God when He takes you down a path that looks less familiar than what you thought it should look like. The promise in this verse is that he turns darkness to light and makes crooked paths straight. So if the path looks winding and unclear,just because God is leading, He will straighten it for you and i.
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