Does anyone else have children who love flashlights or those glow sticks? My sons love them! They go to sleep each night with their flashlights. One night I was trying to explain to them how light guides our steps. I quoted Psalm 119:105: Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. We turned off all the lights. In the darkness, I showed my boys how, by using their flashlights, we could see each step if we followed where the light was. We could not see throughout the entire room but could see only where the light was.
The light guides our way. Sometimes we have things come into our lives, good or bad, and we are not sure which way to go next. As we read God’s Word daily, He guides us through each unsure moment. He sheds His light so we can take that next step. Moses led the children of Israel in the wilderness with God’s help. God provided a cloud by day to lead them and a fire by night for light so they could see in the dark as well. Exodus 13:21-22 says, And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
What a comfort to know that God is before us, in His infinite knowledge and wisdom, guiding our way! Like we would use a flashlight in the dark, may we all use God’s Word daily to see our next steps in life!
by April Pineda
