This morning, all being well, I will have set off from Lowestoft on the first day of an 8 day cycle 'pilgrimage' to St David's. Don't feel sorry for me or be overly impressed! This is just what I like to do. For these devotionals I'd like to share with you some life lessons learned on long distance bike rides.
I'm not very good at map reading - this doesn't bode well! So instead I'm following a set of very precise instructions that appear to be in code. Once I have decoded all the directions (TR for Turn Right, CSO for Continue Straight On etc) all I have to do is follow them. Easy? You'd think so. The trouble is that I have spent the last few weeks pouring over these instructions and I promise you, they don't make any sense at all!
And then it hit me – 'I won't be able to make sense of the directions and know which way to turn until I have reached the point in the road to which those directions apply.'
We often worry about the future: we worry that we won't know what to do or which decision to make. But God only ever meets us in the present and often only reveals to us the right direction at the moment when we need to know that direction. So we have to learn to trust and let each day or every situation unfold, believing that God will give us the grace, clarity and wisdom we need, at the moment we need it.
'Whether you turn to the right or to the left, you ears will hear a voice behind you saying 'This is the way; walk in it' Isaiah 30:21 [NIV]
Sheila Bridge
P. S. Today's journey is Lowestoft to Swanton Morley, 61 miles, I'd value your prayers – particularly that I don't get lost!
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