God will Lead our Spirits

Verses: Psalms 143: 1 - 12

Song inspired by the chapter:  Song has been uploaded from YouTube.com and is not my original.

My thoughts about the verses:

Think about driving a car.  We are directed by so many different signals and signs.  We are told how fast we can drive.  We are told when to stop and when to go.  We are told that a road will have curves.  We are told when a road ahead is closed.  Many of us have a GPS system that tells us how to get from point A to point B.

Imagine if we could have all this in our life.  Signs to tell us how fast to jump to a decision.  Signals to tell us when to go and continue going down the path we are going.  Signals to tell us when to stop and let God be in charge.  Signs to tell us that the road ahead wasn’t going to be easy and that actually the road would have bumps and curves.  Signs to tell us that our path ahead is blocked and that we need to go a different way.  A GPS system embedded into our life directing us from where we are to where we want to be.

We need to realize that we have all these things in our life.   God is there helping us get through life.  God is our GPS leading us to where we need to be.  God is directing us down the roads we need to be on.  Yet, do we accept that God is there for us.  Is our faith faltering in the fact that the only one we need is there helping us survive in this crazy world.

We all know that when we are driving that we are so tempted not to do what the signs say.  We go faster than we are supposed to.  We run through that yellow light just as it turns red.  We listen to our GPS but we often do not follow it because we think we know a better to get there.

We soon will find out that risk taking only gets us so far.  The tickets that start piling up for the small and big risk we take.  We eventually get lost because we didn’t follow the directions and we miss things that we needed to be at.  We find that it is better to follow the directions and signs because they are in place to keep us safe.

It is time to be honest.  How many times in our lives do we do things our way without listening to God?  We all do it so don’t feel alone.  We forget that our guide is within our life.  Instead of stopping and giving time to God we run through life doing our own thing.  We try to get where we think we are supposed to be without asking God f that is right.  We make our own decisions without listening to the one that lives within us.

We need to come to the point in our life that we realize that what God does is for our own good.  God isn’t trying to hurt us when we are directed some place that we didn’t want to go.  We find that we can become closer to God when we stop and listen.  We can have our needs met when we ask God to guide us.  We soon find that our path is less bumpy because God is there.  We just need to allow God to guide our Spirit.

Prayer:

We honor your holy name.  We praise you Dear God.  We thank you God.  We ask right now that you help us to stop and listen to you.  Help us accept that we need to allow you to guide us.  Help us accept that you want our journey to be an easy trek.  In the name of the Holy One we pray.  Amen

Questions:

Have you been listening to God?  Are your running to where you want to be without asking God if that is where you need to be?  Have you accepted that God is there in our life ready to be our guide?  What do you need to give over to God today?