Topic: God’s Guidance Won’t Leave You Confused [RICK WARREN Devotional 15 JANUARY   2023]

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God’s Guidance Won’t Leave You Confused

BY RICK WARREN — JANUARY 15, 2023
FROM LIVING IN THE GOODNESS OF GOD

“Your road led through the sea, your pathway through the mighty waters—a pathway no one knew was there!”

Psalm 77:19 (NLT)

The Bible says God actively works through your circumstances. But you cannot judge your situation apart from God’s wisdom. In other words, you must leave it up to God to interpret your circumstances. Only he is capable of understanding all the facts, and only he sees the significance of every detail. That’s why it is so important that you test it all by his Word.

If you feel overwhelmed or confused about a decision, it might be because you’re so caught up in in your own, limited way of thinking, that it blocks out God’s voice. The Bible says, “God is not a God of disorder but of peace” (1 Corinthians 14:33 NIV). He is not the author of confusion. So if you’re feeling confused, guess what? It’s not God’s voice speaking in your life.

There will be times you come up against enormous financial, spiritual, or physical barriers. That’s when you need to confess, “God, there are mountains on either side and an impassable barrier in front of me.” And then you wait for God to respond and assure you that he’s got you exactly where he wants you to be. He will make a pathway where there seems to be no way.

Psalm 77:19 says, “Your road led through the sea, your pathway through the mighty waters—a pathway no one knew was there!” (NLT)

When you don’t know what to do, God will guide you. He didn’t design you to go through life on your own ingenuity and power. You don’t have to just hope you can figure things out.

God wants to lead you on the right path, and he will do that when you surrender to him and his guidance.

Talk It Over

• When you’re frustrated because God doesn’t seem to be answering your prayer for guidance, what do you think he wants you to do? What have you learned through those kinds of experiences in the past?
• How has God used your pain to show you his purpose for your life?
• Why do you think God sometimes lets you get to the point where there seems to be no way out of a difficult circumstance?

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