Breakfast With God

This morning, I was reading a message from a WhatsApp contact that made me see/understand a famous verse from Psalm 119 in a totally new way. Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. (v. 105) For the first time, this message painted a visual in my mind: I imagined myself walking along a garden pathway, holding a lamp or lantern. What I realised was, in actual fact, the lamp wouldn't light up the entire pathway, from start to end; it would only show me the next few steps on the way. Just the next few steps. The truth is, if we're going to walk with God; if we're going to really trust Him, just those next few steps need to be enough. God hardly shows us the full picture; He requires us to trust that even if/when we don't see the entire pathway illuminated, we will continue to walk with Him, lamp (the Word of God) in hand, ready to take on what life brings. It also helped me remember the importance of the Bible as an actual everyday guide . We shouldn&

A few years ago, I read an article where the author suggested that the way we communicate with God changes in different seasons of our lives. I understood it; I agreed with it; but I couldn't very much relate to it until about 5 days ago. I've been through a fairly difficult time in the last two weeks, and I have to admit that instead of that pushing me to speak with God more, I felt I was spending a significantly smaller amount of time praying. That's a bad thing, right? Well, maybe not. The truth, in fact, was: I was probably spending more time praying than usual, just not in an 'actual', 'formal', 'Dear God...' kind of way. I was consistently muttering, thinking, saying prayers throughout the day.  But that's not where I'm going with this.  The truth is: communicating with God does not remain constant through all the seasons of your life. That's something the author of that article pointed out: he went through a phase where he