"In All Your Ways...."

"In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct (or, make straight) your paths."  (Proverbs 3:6)

The NIV says, "In all your ways submit to Him...."  The NLT says, "Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take." 

From what I can gather in various renderings, there is something of "intimate knowledge" here in the word for, "acknowledge."  When I am in such a submitted relationship in Jesus Christ, I can be assured that Jesus will, "direct (my) paths," and make the way, "straight," before me.  If my, "paths," are Jesus', "paths," then I can know that they are there of Jesus' creation; and being one in Jesus, I am in His, "paths," for my life.

In Jesus, whatever, "your paths," they are not scary, fearful, "paths."  These are, "paths," though fraught with uncertainties, questions, failures or victories, lead to that Glorious City, "And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven."  If a person is seeking "the will of God for my life," but is not keeping his/her eyes on Jesus and, "the holy city," it will be nothing but an always searching, self-consumed life.

You, my friend, may be that "weary pilgrim" of the old song.  But I say to you today what our "Pathfinder" said so long ago, and still breathes upon and in us today, "And  God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying.   There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away"; therefore, "In all your ways submit to Him", and, "all these things shall be added unto you."

Father, in Jesus' Name, I choose again this day to, "in all [my] ways submit to You."  Amen.

************************

The latest news I have is that the Kavanaugh hearings are schedule to being on September 4.  I have secured a hotel on Capitol Hill and intend to be in DC from the morning of September 4 to the evening of September 7.  Much prayer appreciated.

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2