In the initial post on God’s guidance, we argued that we can be sure of God’s leading in our lives. Besides the many places in Scripture that teach us to look for His direction, we can add that the entirety of Scripture would lead us to believe that God will guide us.  God is our Father; we are His sons and daughters by adoption. If a good father directs His children, how much more can we look to our Heavenly Father to lead us and guide us in the way we should go? “No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.” God isn’t moving the football, concealing His will, or being tricksy or coy with us. Since God wants His children to do His will, we can be sure that God will guide us and not withhold the information we need like a catty secretary.

We know this also because God’s Holy Spirit indwells us, and a vital part of His ministry includes teaching and instructing us.

But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. (I John 2:27)

The Bible doesn’t teach us to look for the same method or means of guidance as we see men in the early church receiving. Remember that the Holy Spirit worked more overtly and sensationally then. Without the entire canon of Scripture, God allowed men to walk by sight. 

In our day, God expects us to live by faith, looking to His Word more than we look for signs or sensations. So, we don’t look for God to speak to us now the way He spoke to the men of that day. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t look for God to guide us at all.

Continue reading “He Shall Direct Thy Paths, part 2” →