February 25, 2001
Every valley shall be raised up,
every mountain and hill made low;
the rough ground shall become level,
the rugged places a plain.
Isaiah 40:4
The first few verses of this chapter are prophecy about Jesus and in verse 4 it states something about Jesus, about God that I marvel at -- that HE makes a way for us to come to him. God has done and still does the hard part in our coming to him. All we ever need to do is choose him, turn and start to take a step in his direction and he does the bulk of the work. Many times he's been working before we are ever aware. What his verse describes is all the difficulties in the journey being smooths out, valleys and mountains that might tire us on our journey are evened out, rough and rugged places where we might hurt ourselves and be slowed down are smoothed before us. I have had to make some challenging/difficult decisions this weekend in handling a situation and it has helped me to realize how much God is at work in my life. When my hearts desire is to please him no matter the circumstance or how difficult it might be... I need only turn in his direction and he helps me make the journey.