Walking Without The Whole Map

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Proverbs 20, 24, a man's steps are from the Lord.
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How then can man understand his way? Today's episode, walking
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without the whole map. It was close to midnight and
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I was driving by myself down one of those scary
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pine tree, dark Mississippi roads. It was raining. I was exhausted.
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I volunteered at a small Baptist church to bring our
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youth ministry event to kids who couldn't afford the big
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ticketed one across town. No lights, no smoke machines or
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headliner groups. This time, we was mostly me. I brought music, games, energy,
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and love, but at the end, I was spent. Wondering
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why I'd driven so far, worked free on my day
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off in the middle of a ministry tour. Then Fred
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Hammond's Your Steps Are Ordered came on. Somewhere between the
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rain and those Mississippi trees, I started singing with Fred
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and started crying not sad crying. I'm talking about those
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tired tears of surrender and relief that come when your
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soul finally understands what your brain has been arguing with.
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Proverbs 20, 24 says, a man's steps are from the Lord.
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How then can man understand his way? There it was.
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My problem wasn't that the road made no sense. My
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problem was assuming it had to make sense before I
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could trust it. Ain't it funny how we want God
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to hand us the whole map? Where is this going?
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How long will it take? Will this even matter? But
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GPS doesn't explain the whole journey. It gives you the
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next turn. Sometimes faith works the same way. Turn here,
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serve there, call them, show up, keep going. That night,
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I realized those steps had been ordered before I understood
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what God was serving through them. And I love that word, ordered.
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It can mean arranged, but it also sounds like ordering
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a meal. Maybe God had ordered strength, encouragement, dignity, and hope.
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for those Mississippi children. And my tired feet were part
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of the delivery. Does that mean every choice is automatically
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God's will? Not even. We can take wrong turns, ignore wisdom,
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and confuse impulse with instruction. But even then, grace knows
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how to recalculate the route. You may not understand the
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road you're on. You may only see far enough for
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one more faithful step. Take it. The whole map was
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never your responsibility. Faithfulness is. Remember, ordered steps may feed
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somebody before they make sense. Prayer. Lord, I choose to
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trust the next step you've ordered. Today's challenge. Name one
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faithful step you've taken without seeing the outcome. Let this
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settle you. You obeyed what you knew. Trust God with
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where it leads. Proverbs Daily is a reader and listener
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a creative communicator, author, and Christian hip-hop pioneer. To connect everywhere,
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