READ: Psalm 25:4-5 NLT
'Show me Your ways, O Lord. Teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me. For You are the God Who saves me. I wait for You all day long.'
Everyone wants guidance. We all want to know how to have the most peaceful, fulfilling and useful life. We want to know who to marry, which career to follow, how to spend our money, how to resolve conflict and a thousand other things. The bible steadfastly refuses to be a manual on guidance. It does something far more wonderful. It introduces us to a Guide. God wants to be that Guide and the better we get to know him the more clearly we discover the way in which he wants us to go.
The person who looks for guidance is normally saying “I want to stay in charge and run my life, but I’d like a little bit of information to help me on my way.” God doesn’t work on that basis. It is when we hand over the controls to him and offer to him our hopes and our future that he is able to guide us in the way that he longs to.
I have often struggled with guidance. Some years ago I was agonising over a particular decision and came to the con-clusion that because the family was happy and I was enjoying my current ministry, I would not allow my name to go forward for another role. One Sunday a man came up to me and said that he had heard a joke from Ken Dodd on the radio and he thought I might find it helpful. I thought that sounded unlikely, but I let him tell it to me. “Question. How do you make God laugh? Answer. Tell him the plans you’ve got for your life.” God spoke to me in that moment. I had sorted out my life plans and God was roaring with laughter. I immediately real-ized that I had to be willing to hand over my future to God.
God longs to guide us, but it will only happen as we hand over the controls of our lives to him and let him be our Guide.
QUESTION: Are you willing to let God be your Guide?
PRAYER: Thank you Lord that you love us so much that you offer to be our Guide. Amen

Released on 20 Oct 2020