Is Jesus walking beside you? Do you feel His presence and see His footprints? Do you once in a while hit His hand as your arm swings to the pace of living? Is Jesus reaching for you when you stumble? Are you enjoying the scenery that is before you on your journey? What is Jesus saying to you? Is it a conversation of love and joy, of laughter and contentment?
To walk with Jesus, to see His approving gaze, to feel His reassuring touch and know His devoted love...this is what I desire.
Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Walk the road you are on with a spring in your step and expectancy in your soul. Continue on your given path and enjoy your conversations with Him. Turn and look Him full in the face and see His approving smile. Look at the countryside He has provided just for you. Let Him have the heavy things you are carrying, He won't mind.
Enjoy yourself as you walk in each town of daily activities, in each valley of trials and in each mountain top of pleasures, pick up the gold you find along the way.
Trust Him and believe Him when He says, "Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you." Be confident of this as you approach the next fork in the road...He will point to the right way...if only you will ask. You may only see Jesus vaguely, as looking in a mirror, but add faith to that image you see and He will become real, as real as the gold in your hand.
"In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith - of greater worth than gold - which perishes even though refined by fire - may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed." 1 Peter 1:6-7
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