Me:  Have you figured out how to start?

Prodigal:  I’m stoppin’ cause I’ve been doin’ nothin’ but burnin’ sunlight.

Me:  Maybe there is another way.

 

This is from God’s Word for Women

 

When we can see, it is not faith, but reasoning.  In crossing the Atlantic, we observed this very principle of faith.  We saw no path upon the sea, nor sigh of the shore.  And yet day by day we were marking our path upon the chart as exactly as if there had followed us a great chalk line upon the sea.  And when we came within twenty mile of land, we knew where we were exactly as if we had seen it all three thousand miles ahead.

How had we measured and marked our course?  Day by day our captain had taken his instruments and, looking up to the sky, had fixed his course by the sun.  He was sailing by the heavenly, not the earthly lights.

So faith looks up and sails on, by God’s great Sun, not seeing one shoreline or earthly lighthouse or path upon the way.  Often its steps seem to lead into utter uncertainty, and even darkness and disaster; but He opens the way, and often makes such midnight hours the very gates of day.  Let us go forth this day, not knowing, but trusting.

Waiting on God brings us to our journey’s end quicker than our feet.

by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

 

He went out, not knowing whither he went.

Hebrews 11:8

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org