Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.
– Psalm 119:105
The other day I was looking at a magazine ad for outdoor camping equipment from Cabela’s, “The World’s Foremost Outfitter.” Wow! I don’t really know why it got my attention because I don’t go camping anymore. But my eye spied this really nifty bright red Coleman battery operated high intensity outdoor light that was almost irresistible. Now even though I don’t camp at all, I found myself wanting one.
Why? Well … in case of a hurricane in our desert city or a massive power outage that lasts for weeks or … Anyway, it looked to me like it would light up my way no matter what the circumstances and get me out of trouble.
In all seriousness, God speaks of His word as being like that high intensity lamp. Sometimes we find ourselves walking in spiritual darkness, either by choice or by accident. God’s word will always tell us the right way to go by lighting the way and keeping us out of “every wrong path.”
I don’t know about you but I’ve walked down some pretty dark paths in this life – especially before I met Jesus Christ. Little did I know at the time that God would have lit up my way if I would have just asked Him. You see, the Bible tells us this about God, that not only is His word a light to our path but “God is light and in him there is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). That means you can trust whatever He says.
E. Stanley Jones tells of a missionary who got lost in an African jungle with nothing around him but bush and a few cleared places. He found a native hut and asked the native if he could lead him out. The native said he could. “All right,” said the missionary, “show me the way.” The native said, “Walk.” So they walked and hacked their way through unmarked jungle for more than an hour. The missionary got worried. “Are you quite sure this is the way? Where is the path?” The native said, “Bwana, in this place I am the path.”
That’s the way it is with God, my friends. We say, “God, show me the way.” He says, “Walk.” We say. “But I don’t see the path.” He says, “I am the path and the light of that path.” Maranatha!
