You Can Have Divine Guidance
The Lord shall guide thee.--Isa. 58: 11.
If you really and earnestly desire it, the Lord will guide you.
His guidance does not mean the abrogation of self-responsibility. Just because one desires to know God’s will and to be guided by it, he is bound to exercise his own mind in a careful effort to find out what His will is.
God does not reveal His will to those who do not want to know it and make no effort to discover it. He counsels men to use their own wits to find out His counsel.
Do your best to find out what your duty is; hold in abeyance your own inclination and let your supreme desire be to do God’s will. Don’t take the first vagrant impulse that rises in your mind to be the voice of God.
David sums up the conditions of divine guidance: “Delight thyself in the Lord; commit thy way unto the Lord, rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him” (Ps. 37: 4-5).
He who delights in God, who has committed himself to walk in the way He points out, who waits patiently for Him in the restful confidence that He will show the way, will not be left to grope in darkness.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Christ said, “If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light” (Matt. 6: 22). If our eyes are turned towards God and singled upon Him, there will be a divine radiance shining through us, lighting up for us each step of the way along life’s journey.
You can have divine guidance if you sincerely desire it and meet the conditions. And what a difference it will make!
You will not be confused and bewildered by the daily-recurring decisions and choices you have to make. You will be delivered from those fears and misgivings with which men are always troubled when they try to choose their way without God’s help and guidance. You will not feel that you are a mere atom to be crushed beneath the chariot-wheels of a blind fate. You will know the blessedness of a serene and calm walk through life. You will have a confidence that imparts to you peace and poise and power in the midst of every circumstance.
