Directing Your Path?

Directing Your Path?

We were often taught that Prov 3:6 is talking about God directing our paths as we acknowledge Him in all our ways. We want Him to show us which direction to go so that we can do His will.

If we understand Christ IN us, we will know that His will is expressed in His Word. And the direction we take, more often than not, is Him already working in us to will and to do according to His good pleasure (Phil 2:13). It is not a mysterious unfolding of His will that requires days and months of waiting upon His voice.

It is a revelation of who we are in Christ (in union) and act upon the Word (His written voice) with the desire (Ps 37:4) that He has put in us.

The ESV version has a better translation for Prov 3:6. It says, 'In all your ways 𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 Him, and He will make 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 your paths.'

The word 'acknowledge' in Hebrew is 'yada', which means to know God intimately. And the word 'straight' is 'yashar', which means 'upright', where you get the word 'righteous'.

In other words, Prov 3:6 is teaching us that the goal is to 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐇𝐢𝐦 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 in everything we do, and out of that knowing, we will 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐥𝐲 in all our ways and paths.

Scriptures interpret Scriptures: Prov 4:25; 9:15; 11:5; 15:21; Isa 45:13 and many more.

God is more interested in 𝐇𝐎𝐖 we walk than where we walk. He is more interested in directing us to walk uprightly than directing our directions in life. For the way to be prosperous in the Kingdom is not about which direction to go, but by doing what is written in the Word (His will) --- Joshua 1:8.