Ten years ago, we had a cookout on Racoon Mountain. TVA has a nice place with bathrooms, covered pavilions, ball fields, and hiking paths. After lunch, I stirred up the kids to go on a hike. Children need to burn off energy. But what about me, the sixty-five-year-old? I had no energy to burn off. What was I thinking?! So, I set off with my five grandchildren and the two Balta girls on an adventure. But after a while, two-year-old Greyson became tired, and I started carrying him on my shoulders. Soon, Bennett, the next youngest, began to complain, and the two older girls took turns carrying him. Soon everyone was tired. I was tired too, but I had to motivate everyone else. We heard other hikers and saw them on a parallel trail going back in the direction where we had come from. I led our group up through the brush to the new trail and we started back. But everyone was already tired, and we had just turned around and had to hike back to the pavilion. Poor planning on my part. I had expected the trail to circle around but it just kept going further away. It reminded me of David in Psalm 27:11, “Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path …” Often in life, we are confused and unsure of the best way forward. The best plan is to depend upon the dear Lord to lead us in a plain path. So, how do we find this plain path? Well, that’s the exact question that Thomas had. John 14:6, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Pray for direction and pray for a plain path.
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