I did an internship in the Spring, and one night we had an adventure. Oh, how I have come to love these adventures ... [more like the anticipation of them scared me, but I really did enjoy them]. Well this one involved a lit tea candle, and traveling a boardwalk in the dark night alone, near Lake Alice that led to a seating area. Ok, I thought to myself, I have walked this during the day, I can do it [as my heart thumped out of my chest]. All I had to do was walk.
Well I began to walk, I soon realized how dark it truly was, but the worst was yet to come. I didn't realize how the candle was beginning to blind me. Just take away the flame from my eye, I thought, duh! But even that didn't seem to help [I had an eye procedure done a few months earlier, which results in periodic prolonged night blindness when my eye is exposed to direct light in the dark]. This is when I got really nervous, like really, really nervous. I almost turned back to the start with tears in my eyes probably to accompany wide eye stares, as I explained that I couldn't make it. But something in me told me to keep going [Holy Spirit]. I took it step by step, it didn't seem to be getting easier, but I finally made it.
Jesus taught me something. In Psalm 23, where David exclaims that the Lord is his Shepard, He doesn't explain that the walking of the path to where the Lord leads him is easy. Matter of fact, he talks about walking through the darkest of valleys, yet without fear. I understand something from David. No matter if we can't understand how we will walk through the path, the Lord will lead us. We just need to trust Him.
We are both satisfied and lack nothing, with this God that loves us. Thank you Jesus.
Stephanie
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I was just talking to someone about Psalms today and used the same example....oh how the holy spirit connects us :)