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Discipleship Focus: Guidance
- Guidance: God grants us His guidance. Sometimes this guidance is God leading us away from temptation. Sometimes this guidance is helping us to follow in a direction for which He has chosen. Our default position should be to wait for God’s guidance and then follow when it comes.
It would
be really easy to go with the idea of protection for these psalms. After all, Psalm 121 is all about the
psalmist feeling as though he is among enemies while he desires to be among
people who are about peace. Psalm 122 is
all about God’s ability to watch over us.
These are natural themes for talking about protection.
However,
I believe that the deeper sub-tone of these psalms is guidance. Anytime a person is among enemies they need protection. But if we really look at that for which the
psalmist is asking the Lord, we actually see a desire to move from living among
people of war to living among people of peace.
The psalmist is looking to move from one context to another. The easiest way to move from one context to
another is with great guidance. There is
no greater guidance than that offered up by the Lord our God.
As Psalm 121
tells us, our help does come from the Lord.
God doesn’t fall asleep on the job.
He is always there for us. He
doesn’t strike us when we aren’t expecting it.
His guidance makes all things possible.
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