LORD, how can we know the way?
(J.R. Miller, "Evening Thoughts" 1907)
"LORD, how can we know the way?"
JESUS said to him, "I AM the way"
John 14:5-6
This is the first day of a new year.
We are setting out on a journey
of which we can have no knowledge
in advance. The road is one on which
we never have gone hitherto. We know
not what any day will have for us . . .
what our duties will be,
what burdens shall be laid upon us,
what sorrows we shall have to endure,
what battles we shall have to fight.
We cannot see one step before us!
How can we know the way?
As we sit in the quiet, this first
evening, and ask the question,
we hear an answer which is full
of comfort. JESUS says to us,
All we shall have to do, therefore,
will be to follow JESUS. HE has made
a way through this dark world for us.
HE has gone over all the journey
and opened a road for us at great
cost. HE went over the way HIMSELF--
we shall find HIS shoe-prints at every step.
HE has a definite way for each one of us.
Every mile of the journey HE has chosen--
and every place where I pitch my tent
HE has selected for me!
"Leaving you an example, so that
you should follow in HIS steps!"
1 Peter 2:21
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BONUS GEM!
JEHOVAH-JIREH--
The LORD Will Provide!"
Genesis 22:14
Write deep in your heart this New Year's
day, this word of sublime confidence:
JEHOVAH-JIREH. It tells you . . .
that you can trust GOD always;
that no promise of HIS ever fails;
that HE does all things well;
that out of all seeming loss
and destruction of human hopes,
HE brings blessing.
this way before." Joshua 3:4.
There will be sorrows and joys,
failures and successes, this year,
just as there were last year. You cannot
forecast individual experiences. You cannot
see a step before your feet!
Yet JEHOVAH-JIREH calls you to enter
the new year with calm trust in HIM.
It bids you put away all anxieties
and forebodings,
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