Dear Ones:
Perhaps one of the great characteristics of our day is that issues, and different matters and subjects, are not clear. There seem to be so many factors and variables that we get lost in the weeds in regard to discerning the will of God, of being sure that the Lord is speaking to our hearts, and knowing that “…this is the way, walk ye in it.”
Where does one begin in order to have clarity? In the Christian experience, we always begin with Christ, who IS our beginning. Ever since that day when, by faith, we committed ourselves to Him forever, He became not only the primary focal point, but the beginning point of life, and the consequent direction and means of living. Since He is such, is it not reasonable that this God, who is Light, is also a God of clarity? And can we be assured, even convinced of the way forward, or of a decision to be made?
In Psalm 27, David writes this in his prayer: “…Teach me Thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.” (v.11) All through the Psalms, we find the different psalmists praying the same thing, that God would teach them His ways, that He would guide in judgment, that He would teach in the way that the believer should choose. Numerous are the promises in the world of God concerning receiving wisdom when asked for it, being led in righteousness for His name’s sake, and being instructed and taught in the way one is to go….and this with the addition, “….I will guide thee with mine eye.” (Ps. 32:8)
When God told Habakkuk to write his message to Israel, He said, “…make it PLAIN upon the tables.” If there is one thing that Christ is always seeking to teach us it is that He is a God of clarity…of light. He has called us to KNOW His will, to receive wisdom, to walk in the will of God, in “…all wisdom and spiritual understanding.” Is this possible? It is to the one who is willing to do the will of God, and who is looking expectantly for God to answer. “I had fainted unless I had believed to SEE the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.” (Ps. 27:13) The psalmist is a man who is looking intently into heaven to Christ at the right hand of God. He is seeking those things above, but not in a vain manner, but with the certainty of receiving. Perhaps we do not receive clarity on matters pertaining to God because we are not expectantly looking…to receive.
“Long as my life shall last; Teach me Thy way. Where’er my lot be cast, teach me Thy way. Until the race is won, until the journey’s done, until the crown’s won, teach me Thy way.”
Love, Dad