Seeing Your Way

This is the message from 1997 I referenced in my message today.

The good friend who maintains the Live Delivered web site and Podcasts thought it would be a good idea to share that message with you.  Back then I was connecting with others via email.  So what you have here is that email, less the names of the people.

From:    Forte, Allen  LTC

Sent:     Wednesday, November 26, 1997 5:37 AM

To:        

Subject: Seeing Your Way

            Renewing your mind.  “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalm 119:105).  A small boy and his father were walking in the way.  The father explained patiently to the boy how he must be careful to hold onto the father’s hand for safety and to listen to his instructions as they made their way on their journey.  The boy exclaimed “but father I don’t need to hold your hand because I can follow your footsteps here in the way”.  The father was pleased but he said, “son there will be times when you will not be able to see my footsteps and when that happens you must understand my way in order to follow my path.”

The little boy didn’t realize he needed more than footsteps to follow to make sure he was on solid ground.  He needed the presence of his father with him and beside him all the time.  Still, the little boy was saying “I can see your way from your footsteps.”  In his innocence he was telling his father he could depend even on his footsteps to follow and to live by.  That is some great faith shown in a little way by a little boy.  

I am reminded today that we should be just like that little boy in our relationship to Christ.  We may think we know where Christ wants us to go; we may think we know the way He wants us to take; but we cannot see our feet, nor can we choose the right path to follow when we do not have the word of God as our lamp.

PTL today and learn to hold onto His Hands and to listen to His instructions.  You will need to do both in order to choose and to follow the right paths in your life going forward.  Things will not get easier for you.  Things will not be simpler for you.  Your future is likely to be much more complex than your present.  Holding onto His Word and following His Way is the best way you can choose to get through a future that will not be kind to you.

Live A Delivered Life.

LTC Allen Forte

Deputy Project Officer TACMIS

703-806-3887 / DSN 656-3887

email:  Allen.Forte@peostamis.belvoir.army.mil