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your daily devotions should be: guidance. Without God's input you're at
the mercy of your own best thinking--and that should concern you
greatly! The Psalmist wrote, 'Show me Your ways...teach me Your paths;
guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are God my Saviour, and my
hope is in You all day long.' (Psalms 25:4-5 NIV). God said through the
prophet Isaiah: 'I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I
will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light
before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do for
them, and not forsake them.' (Isaiah 42:16 NKJV). The path you take
determines your destination, so before you decide to go in a given
direction, talk to God. And don't be surprised when He takes you down a
road 'you have not known'. You must trust that God knows what He's
doing. Blaise Pascal said, 'All of man's troubles stem from his
inability to sit quietly in a room alone.' In this fast-paced age you
must take time to slow down, collect your thoughts, evaluate what's
happening around you, and get direction from the One who knows the end
from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10). Jesus told His disciples to 'come
apart' in order to be rejuvenated physically and spiritually (Mark
6:31). The Bible says, '...When they were alone, He explained all things
to His disciples.' (Mark 4:34 NKJV). There are certain things God will
explain to you only when you take the time to be alone with Him.
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