Confirmation

“A person’s steps are confirmed by the Lord.”  (Psalm 37:23 Berkeley)

THE NINTH STEP:  Look for confirmation as you seek God’s will.

At times on our journeys of faith when we come to a fork in the road there is no verse of Scripture that tells us to go to the right or to the left and we have no prompting or leading of the Spirit.  We do our best to make the proper choice, while acknowledging the hard reality that we simply do not know which direction is the will of the Lord.  Having done everything we can to discern the will of God, we journey down one side or the other of that road.

The verse quoted above means we should sometimes move forward into what we perceive to be the will of God, praying and looking for a confirmation.  That confirmation may be positive or negative.  If everything works out and the direction we have chosen obviously has God’s stamp of approval on it, we can say God has given us a confirmation of His will.  We have the conviction of God saying to us, “This is the way, walk in it.” (Isaiah 30:21)  We see evidence of the reality Jesus described, that when He calls His sheep to follow Him, He goes before them. (John 10:1-4)  After we commit to a direction, we see evidence that the Living Christ has gone before us and prepared the way for us.

Sometimes, the confirmation is negative and the results are the opposite of those just described.  When that happens, we should be humble enough to go back to that fork in the road and choose the other direction.  We see an example of this in Acts chapter 16 when Paul wanted to go into Asia and was directed instead by illness into Philippi.

2 Responses to Confirmation

  1. Cindy Kranich says:

    Dad, I love this in bite size pieces…easier to digest and build from strength to strength!

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