Best of Blogs #15

This Is the Way, Walk In It, originally posted 11/10/06.

I discovered this passage earlier this week and I think it's just about the coolest thing I've read in a long time:

"O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you. Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it." – Isaiah 30:19-21

One thing I noticed as I re-read the passage last night is that God's answer to our cry for help won't necessarily be to solve our problems and take away our pain. He might still give us "the bread of adversity and the water of affliction." But He does promise to clearly, audibly direct us as we decide which way to go in the midst of hard times. It's still up to us to listen and heed His direction. My prayer is that I will not only hear Him telling me "This is the way; walk in it," but that I will then go and walk in the way He has revealed.