There is this person who has recently stepped into my life. I now feel that it is my God-given duty to be there for her. She is in the midst of a big trial right now and every time we speak, the conversation ends with: "Everything is going to be ok, taking it one day at a time."
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of it's own." Matthew 6:25-34
You go, girl! That's exactly the way God intended us to live: "one day at a time."
Moving on....
In my spare time while I'm doing things around the house, I like to go back on our churches website and listen to the sermons that we missed. I listened to one titled, "Faithful Footsteps" written by our churches' youth pastor. The bible verse dedicated to this sermon was Psalm 119:105
"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path."
Of course I always thought this meant the obvious: "Jesus is the way!" Right? Wrong! My dad tried to explain that verse to me one time. Notice it's a lamp that is illustrated here. A lamp certainly isn't going to light up your whole path so you can see where you're going. If that was the case, then the palmist would have written, "your word is a flashlight." We have to trust God for where he's going to take us but he gives us just enough light so that we can "watch our step."
I thought that was beautifully pointed out, but now that I'm older and married, I've learned that I can't believe and trust everything my dad says just because the words came out of his mouth-Something I'm guilty of doing a lot. I trusted his opinion 100%. Now I try not to do that. In fact I finally found something that I disagree with him about. Who would have ever thought? So to make my point: I thought what my dad said was great but I didn't trust that it was accurately in context with the bible. and that is OK because that just means that we are fighting to live right by God instead of living for each other. Everything seems to pan out better when you do it that way ;)
After my dad and I had this neat, eye opening, discussion about this verse, I heard Chase's sermon. And I'll be darned if he didn't say the same exact thing! While he was speaking he brought out an old old lamp. He noted that the lamps they had back then wouldn't give off very much light. Only enough so you can see your next step but we don't know where these steps will lead us. That's where faith steps in. We have to trust him for that part!
I love the example he gave with a recap of his life over the past year: He married his beautiful bride, moved from FL to SC, and now they have a little one on the way! He said, if God let him know all of that was straight ashead, he would have been terrified. God only gives you what you can handle.... One day at a time ;)
It's scary for me to even look back at my life last year. Got married, started the nursing program, hodgkins lymphoma, surgeries, no hair, switched my major, chemo, radiation. Could you imagine if God said, "Ok Taylor, this is where were headed, just trust me! Oh and here's a lamp for your feet so watch your step!" Oh no no no no!
Thank you God that you give us what we can handle a day at a time. And thank you for supplying us with what we need to help us get through it :)
Can you look back on your life and see how God was there? Guiding your every step, only giving you bits at a time? Can you imagine what it would have been like if it all was just revealed to you?
Side note: Sorry, dad that I was hesitant to trust what you said but let it be confirmed my our youth pastor! Haha! He went to school for that stuff though, right?
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