Recently I was having coffee with a friend and she used the words, “They have lost their way.” As soon as I heard her say this I felt a nudge from the Holy Spirit. I immediately wrote it down because I knew that there would be further insight for me into what it meant outside of what she was specifically sharing.
As I am sitting at my computer, the Old Testament Scripture of the Israelites wandering in the desert for 40 years comes to mind. I really do picture them as a people who had lost their way, even though they had the pillar by night and the cloud by day to lead them, and the leadership of Moses who was hearing directly from God, they still were a people who had lost their way. At some point, their rebellion and disobedience had blinded them to the place that God was taking them to, and even with the promised land nearby, they were not able to see it.
They were the chosen people, the people who God had called as His inheritance, and yet they were confused as to why they were in the desert and where they were going. God, through Moses, had made His intentions known for their future, and yet they did not grasp the vision that was before them.
Without vision it is easy to be looking in the wrong direction for what you are seeking. You may imagine that you are called to one place, and yet it is all wrong. Somehow the map that you were following ended up being the wrong map all together, and although it took you someplace, it was not the right place.
There is a particular Scripture that always brings me peace. It is the last verse in Matthew 28:20 which says, “And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” These words of Jesus are enough to assure me that as I am traveling with Him, I will never lose my way.
The Holy Spirit has been commissioned to keep us on the right path, to comfort us along the way, and to give us the understanding that we need to keep going. The path may look perilous at times, but He will be our assurance, our guide, so that we will never be lost. We lay down our roadmap for His!
Matthew 6:25 ESV “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?”