He knows the way I take

Job 23″8-14

⁸ “Behold, I go forward but He is not there,
And backward, but I cannot perceive Him;
⁹ When He acts on the left, I cannot behold Him;
He turns on the right, I cannot see Him.

I write not because I have somehow figured life out.  I write because God is constantly having to teach me, correct me and change me.  There are so many times, like Job in the verses above, that I cannot figure out what I am supposed to do.  So many times when the way is unclear to me and I do the very best I can to hear the Holy Spirit, and follow His direction.  There are times I cannot see Him, perceive Him or behold Him.

¹⁰ “But He knows the way I take;
When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
¹¹ “My foot has held fast to His path;
I have kept His way and not turned aside.
¹² “I have not departed from the command of His lips;

I take great comfort in the Words of this Scripture, because it is like a lifeline, a step by step directional on how to follow God, especially when I have lost my sense of where He is leading and what He is doing.

First, I come to the place where I believe and rest in the fact that He knows the way I take.  He knows where He is leading me, and what He desires to accomplish. I rest in the remembrance of How He has always worked everything out for good to those who love Him trust His purpose for their lives.

Second, I try to keep in mind that there is always something way bigger that God is trying to accomplish than just what is going on with me.  I am a small part of a much bigger picture; and the trials and struggles I experience are necessary for me to go through, to become the person of God he wants me to be.  When He has tried me I shall come forth as gold.

Third, I try to keep His ways; to listen, to be teachable, pliable, moldable.  I seek to be in a state of openness, and seek to ask forgiveness whenever I get it wrong, which can be often.  After all, His ways are not my ways, and His thoughts are not my thoughts.  So I am constantly needing to bring my ways of thinking under the precious direction of the Word of God.  O how many times, I need His correction.  I seek never to depart from the Words of His lips, and when I do, I try to repent and come quickly underneath His guiding hand once again.
I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food. ¹³ “But He is unique and who can turn Him?
And what His soul desires, that He does.
¹⁴ “For He performs what is appointed for me,
And many such decrees are with Him.

And finally, I constantly remind myself that it is God who performs what is appointed for me.  It is God who accomplishes His will through me.  I must always be a yielded, submitted and willing participant in His Plan.  I must die to my own ways, my own selfish ambitions and desires.  I choose to become and empty vessel that He can fill, and does fill with Himself.

 For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. (Phil. 1:6)

¹² So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; ¹³ for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.  (Phil. 2:12-13)

He knows the way I take.  When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.