Show me the right path, O Lord; point out the road for me to follow.  Lead me by your truth and teach me,  for you are the God who saves me.  All day long I put my hope in you.  Psalm 25:4-5

A woman who takes the time to listen to and obey God’s voice is never stuck.  Every step she takes is leading somewhere. Everywhere she places her foot is strategic, even though she may be unaware of the significance.  Solomon said so.  “The upright one is on a path that makes up a highway.”

Satan’s urgent agenda for us as God’s children is to cause us to distrust God.  One of his biggest lies is the one that says, “This is a dead end.  You’re trapped.”  Oh, how well I know.  Everywhere I looked, I used to see traps instead of doorways.  I didn’t know that they were a mirage, a smokescreen.  If only someone had told me to call Satan’s bluff with a well-fashioned arrow of the word of God.

Now, two decades later, I’m on a soapbox to declare that each ‘trap’ was really a doorway into glory. I was delivered from my wordlessness when I decided to embrace the truth that God is never cornered. I chose to believe God over my own thoughts and I was freed to move again.  I began to see that every pro-active step I took by faith was profitable. There were invisible doorways I couldn’t see before.  Everywhere I placed my feet led me to another divine stepping-stone.

The best of life awaits us even in these difficult times if I define the ‘best’ as opportunities to showcase God’s glory. I intend, until Jesus returns, to become an spirited old lady who teaches others how to pray strategically, embrace the scriptures passionately, and love God wholeheartedly.  My dream is that God will anoint me to be a ‘pied piper’ who marches on the kingdom’s highway, calling out to others on the sidelines to step onto the path with me.   My once compromised faith-walk has become a banner-waving parade for the glory of God.

Show me today’s stepping stones.  Amen