Teach Me Your Paths, Part 2

Teach Me Your Paths

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4 Make me to know your ways, O Lord;

teach me your paths.

5 Lead me in your truth and teach me,

for you are the God of my salvation;

for you I wait all the day long.

- Psalms 25:4-5

Have you asked God to make known to you and to teach you His ways, His paths? Then, subsequently, ask God to lead you in His Truth, His Message, His Word and to teach it to you for He is the Living God of your salvation and for Him you will wait all the day long. Take a moment, open up your Bibles back to Psalms 25 and pray and really ask Him to reveal His truth, teach it to you and make His path known to you. Ask Him for His divine guidance that you may be led according to His plan for you.

I've been stuck in a loop where I repeatedly pray for forgiveness and I try to make known all my sins of the day but, not often enough, did I pray for clarity and discernment that I may hear God communicating with me daily. Have you ever been stuck in that loop? I would be so caught up in the guilt over having sinned that I would forget to take joy and peace in my salvation for He is the God of my salvation! So instead of professing to God about my many sins of the day and bearing the guilt of it on my own shoulders I prayed for His help, His guidance, His love, His message, and to make His ways and His path known to me. 

I wish to call in to your remembrance the price the Lord paid to make this possible. I burdened myself with the weight He had already lifted off of my shoulders over a thousand years go. That weight became a distraction that perpetuated unto itself until it became despair and I devalued myself and become ashamed. Calling myself a horrible Christian and belittling myself instead of humbling myself before the Lord. Remember the verse in part 1? "O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me." - Psalms 25:2 We lifted up our souls to Him and we are trusting in Him but we must accept that trust in our hearts so that when we ask for His path to be revealed we will have the courage to travel down it. We are sinners and we will sin but He has forgiven and so we must acknowledge that fact and acknowledge that we NEED Him in our lives. It doesn't really do us any good to pray for forgiveness and then not accept it when He offers it to us. Once we can accept the gravity of His sacrifice and salvation and we trust in Him then He will reveal to us His path, His plan, His message, His truth and He will communicate with us.

"Ask, and it will be given to you; 

seek, and you will find;

knock, and it will be opened to you." 

- Matthew 7:7

"And whatever you ask in prayer, 

you will receive, if you have faith."

- Matthew 21:22

God will teach to you His paths and He will reveal to you His ways! Accept His forgiveness and His salvation and be at peace. Ask for His guidance daily, lift your soul up to Him daily, walk in His word daily, and stop viewing yourself as only a sinner because we are also God's blessed children, we are the sheep of His pasture, and He will guide us on the path to eternal life as He walks it with us daily and carries us when we fall off of the path. Pray for clarity, guidance, and help then delight yourself in the Lord (Psalm 37:4) as you begin to realize He has been trying to talk to you this whole time!

Beloved, now are we the sons of God,

and it doth not yet appear that we shall be:

but we know that, when he shall appear, we

shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

- 1 John 3:2

And because ye are sons, 

God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, 

crying, Abba, Father.

Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; 

and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

- Galatians 4:6-7