Take me by the hand; Lead me down the path of truth. You are my Savior, aren’t you?
So you realise your way was no way and you have turned to God. Jesus warned that when we clean a house and leave it empty, the strongman will return with his whole gang and take it over again. So you need to very quickly fill it again. You have rejected the lie and now you need to fill it with truth.
Serious believers are constantly looking for more revelation of the truth. At the same time the church makes a fool of itself as so many different “truths’ are preached that it is confusing. The most mature Christians, the ones claiming superior revelation over all others, are often the first in line to grab the newest revelation. They are normally people who have not believed what they currently believe since they got saved but will be people who believed something else and have since changed their minds, maybe more than once. How then does the average Christian find and know the truth?
David asks the Lord to take him by the hand. If you want to know the truth you have to allow the Lord to teach you. It means trusting Him. It means change. It means Him holding you as truth challenges your life and belief systems. No more backing away from truth because that is not the way we always were. No more “I don’t know about that” because your church never taught it before. The fact that Jesus needs to hold your hand in the context of learning the truth means you are surely going to step out of your comfort zone.
Lord holding my hand lead me down the path of truth. So its a path, not just an lump sum. There is a direction, a purpose, a destination and getting there will be a journey. A journey God will guide you through, strengthening and encouraging you through tough patches of challenge and change, holding you in times of fear and carrying you through times of weakness. But all the way it is through the confines of truth. The Bible says He does this by His Word. His word lights the way for our feet and is the path we walk on. The super – spiritual Christian quotes verses all day, pretends to have all the knowledge as if they were born that way. The seeker searches the scriptures, reading, studying, meditating on them. Allowing each word to be a smooth paving stone upon which to tread.
You are my Saviour! It needs to be Jesus that does the leading. No man has the title or office or even ministry of saviour. It is Jesus alone who saved you and therefore He alone who has the truth. Prophets are as common as flies today. Apostles are on every corner. Preachers on every TV. Each one claiming freshest revelation in town. So today he preaches a piece of truth and tomorrow everybody is following him, quoting him and believing every word he says. Pulling their hand out of the hand of Jesus and returning to being followers of men.
Jesus said “I am the way, the truth, the life” “if you keep my words you will know the truth” and gave us His Spirit to lead us in that truth.
Trust Him, follow Him, listen to His voice. You won’t go wrong
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