Weekly Devotion - #5

He Leads The Way

"...The Lord thy God is He which goeth over before thee..." --Deuteronomy 9:3b.

It is so wonderful to me that the Bible is written in the present tense! It never talks about what the Lord did in the past; always what He is doing now. God said, "I am with you," to Abraham and Joseph; to Moses and Joshua; to David and Daniel; to Peter and Paul and John. He says the same to you and me.

After my husband's death, I had to have surgery. I was worried and concerned because I had never gone through such as this without my husband's strength. I prayed to the Lord for a verse of Scripture to help me. He gave me Deuteronomy 9:3b. What a comfort to me to know that the Lord was leading the way.

The morning of the operation, I was made ready and a strong young man came to roll me to the operating room. He was a very joyous man and as he rolled me, he was singing a beautiful hymn. I kept saying out loud, "The Lord goeth before me, the Lord goeth before me, the Lord goeth before me." After a little bit the young man said, "No, Mrs. Rice, it's not the Lord taking you to the operating room, it's me," and he gave his name.

Several years later, I was again at the hospital because my granddaughter was having surgery. As her parents and I sat in the waiting room, this same young man came walking down the hall. He looked in the waiting room and saw me. He came walking in with a big smile on his face and said, "There's that Mrs. Rice, the one that has the Lord taking her to the operating room." I laughed and said, "You're right, the Lord was with me going to the operating room and He is leading me still today."

In Psalm 23:2, it reminds us that He leads us. Here again, this is in the present tense. It does not say He led in the past, or He will lead in the future. He leads now. It is also personal. It says, "He leads me." So I need to keep my eyes on the Lord and "follow the leader," who leads me daily. [CR]

THOT: "Where He leads me I will follow...I'll go with Him all the way."

TODAY: Call, write or visit someone who is sick or shut-in.

This lesson is from  30 Heart Touching Devotions available from SWM.

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