Which Path to Take?

"Righteousness will go before Him, and shall make 

His footsteps our pathway." 

Psalm 85:13

"His footsteps our pathway."

His way of walking, our way to go.

How often we wonder, "Which way should I go?", we often ask, "Which way should I take? What should I do?" For the believer this often leads to, "Where is the LORD leading me?" or "What is God's will for my life?".

But the men of old did not seem to ask such questions over and over again, look at Barnabas, a man known for his faith, he would declare that we should "With purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord" (Acts 11:23b ). It should not be a constant question but an aim we are seeking after. A confident walk. How do we find this?

I want to pose a question for thought:

Perhaps it is not that we cannot see the pathway to take, its just that we would often rather find an easier path to walk.

"His footsteps our pathway."

This is clear, He is not hiding the way to take, He paved the way. We are to put on our shoes and follow. I think the questions come to cause hesitations when we allow fear to strap to our sandals instead of faith.,

When we look at His pathway, we can choose fear or faith, for in looking at His path we see:

A path of constant humility, born in a stable, death on a cross. 

A path of submission, He did nothing apart from the Father, he was raised by a father and mother. 

A path of little comfort, He had no sure place to lay His head.

A path of thin privacy, He was rarely alone, but constantly thronged. 

A path of spiritual labor, He worked so long as there was day, and spent many evenings in prayer.

A path of serving, He lived for the preference of others.

A pathway of denial, He was betrayed with a kiss from a friend.

A pathway of accusation, the religious people never ceased their comments.

A pathway of misunderstandings, even they who walked with Him for years knew Him not.

A pathway of loneliness, He was alone on the cross, bearing our sin.

We all know the final step of His pathway…death, He laid down His life for our salvation.

In knowing this, we are reminded of His words, that no servant is greater than their Master, so we know far well that if we should choose to walk in His pathway, we too will find calvary deaths along the way. Areas where we must die to our self, our pride, our desires, our comforts, our privacies, these are inevitable steps along the path.

But we too quickly get carried away with the "deaths" we must die and forget that His death leads to LIFE.

No other death in history accomplished what His death brought in life. The love that has given new life to mankind.

The enemy has deceived us in seeing only the "deaths", but we must see the life beyond the deaths!

He has also deceived us to think that earthly possessions bring comforts, and that to give up these things are "deaths" indeed…but what if we began to look at things through the eyes of faith, what if we began to see that the earthly things we accumulate don't bring fulfillment in our lives, but actually cause distraction, and an appetite for more. These earthly accumulations cause us to become more attached to this life then we were ever designed to be.

Yet to the feet that walk along His pathway, although some earthly things may be lost along the way, each thing left from your hand gives more space for a spiritual blessing to be carried. Each lessening grip on the world gives opportunity to grab hold of more eternal things. 

You will never know until you travel it, you will never travel it if you settle with fear.

Grace and peace mark the goings and comings of those who choose to make "His footsteps our pathway."