Friday Fritz | 23 May 2014 – Off Course

It is disheartening to suddenly realize you are lost. I can only remember being lost one time in my adult life. It brings with it a sense of helplessness. If you don’t know where you are there is no way to find your way back to something known.

Traversing a maze is difficult if you do not know you are entering one. If you know you are going into a maze there is a certain way to always find your way out: follow either the left wall or the right wall, but not both. Place your hand on one of the walls and never lift it. You may not follow the shortest path but you will always make it to the other opening.

This is the end of a busy week. You may have lifted your head this morning to realize you are off course, or in a maze, with no real sense of where you are heading. Over the weekend take some time to review the last few steps you’ve taken, or the last few decisions you’ve made. Go back, if you can, to the last time you felt you knew, beyond any doubt, that you were in the middle of God’s plan for your life. For some that may be pretty far, perhaps years.

Once there pray for God’s direction on what the next step should be and then take it. I know this is simplistic, but it is effective. I also realize that for some it is not possible to “start over” from a previous place. There may be consequences from poor choices that leave you in a place of hopelessness. That is where the power of God’s work in your life comes in. He can change things! He can redeem lost and broken things; make them like new.

In the middle of the din of life we must purpose to find the peace of God. Circumstances scream loudly, time-sensitive issues bring pressure to act, but until we sense the peace of God in a particular direction we need to wait before making a choice. To do otherwise will cause us, days, or years later, to find ourselves once again off course.

Recommended study: scriptures on The Peace of God; “Ordering Your Private World” by Gordon MacDonald; “Halftime” by Bob Buford; “How You Can Be Led by the Spirit of God” by Kenneth E. Hagin.