Understanding

Proverbs 20:24 
The LORD directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way? (NLT) 

When a runner is in a race, he knows the starting place, the finish line, and how much time he wants to take to get there. Life is not as cut and dry. We may know what we want to accomplish, but the path to get there can be pretty hazy.

Often we seek the wrong goal, the wrong finish line. Too often we look to others for advice about what our desires should be. Sometimes we are pushed a direction based on our parents desires for us with no consideration for what we want. How many of us went to school seeking a career that would gain us the bigger paycheck and soon found out we did not like the work?

We have God given talents and a destiny determined for us before we were even in our mother's womb. And yet we try many paths sometime never finding the one thing we should be on.

How often do we run ahead to where we want to go and then ask the Lord if we did the right thing? I do not know about you, but I am guilty of wanting His direction when I can't figure it out on my own!

And yet, He tells us that we just have to ask. He will use Holy Spirit to guide us in the direction necessary to fulfill our individual destiny. But it is up to us to ask. Then we must sit back and patiently listen for His answer. And finally, we must move out in faith in the direction given.

It is not a matter of understanding where the finish line is or where all the challenges will be along the way. As we allow Him, Holy Spirit will get us to the end of the race.