What Are You Looking At?

“Make your way straight before my face.” Psalms 5:8

You fumble for your buzzing phone and realize you overslept, again! You run out the door with your cup of coffee only to realize that your windshield is iced over. You manage to break away a quarter size opening (no time!) and you turn the heat up full blast, praying it heats up sooner then the normal 10 minutes. Suddenly you realize that driving something like a car with a one-inch visibility range is not such a good idea, especially with hot coffee in hand! You don’t get far before the familiar sound of a police siren closes in behind you and soon you are walking a snow line and breathing into a plastic tube. “I’m not drunk sir!” is the feeble protest. “Well, you sure were driving like you were! “ comes the gruff reply. You point at the windshield that now has hunks of melting ice sliding down it. “I just couldn’t see where I was going.”  “Oh, I see,” comes the ironic reply, “Sorry, but you are still getting a ticket for reckless driving.”

Have you ever felt that you were weaving blindly down the road of life despite your best efforts? I know I have. As believers, we are to walk by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7), but this is not an easy task for us sight-reliant humans! It is extremely counterintuitive for a human to move purposely forward and yet not have a view of the road ahead. We want to know the statistics, the probabilities and the likelihoods before we ever take a step. We want a preview of the big picture first, while it feels like God is barely showing us the next step! A life led of the Spirit often seems nonsensical to our human deductions; however, it is when we are willing to pare down our vision to focus on what God really wants that we realize that somehow our paths always end up being made straight before our eyes. 

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