Remembering the Road
February 26, 2007
This morning I was reading Psalm 136, in which the psalmist recounts the long journey on which God led the Children of Israel.
Always the refrain “His faithful love endures forever” echoes between each line, in the midst of it all. Through slavery, wilderness, and war, His faithful love endures forever. He himself, who made the heavens so skillfully, who placed the earth on the water, who made the heavenly lights–the sun to rule the day, and the moon and stars to rule the night…. it was the very same God who shaped their long, painful, and confusing journey. And his faithful love endures forever.
So it is with my life.
It’s hard to see, sometimes. I’m not where I want to be, or where everyone around me thinks I ought to be. And yet, as I look back, I’m utterly convinced that this road is exactly the road God has carefully laid out in front of me, that He is gently leading me every step of the way, and that His faithful love endures forever.
And though I wander in the wilderness, His presence is always before me in a cloud, and a pillar of fire illumines the dark night of the soul.
Though I grumble and wish for the sophisticated leeks of Egypt, I must confess that the manna is sweet indeed.
