New Year New Way

New Year, New Way

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with my eye. - Psalm 32:8

Let me start with a question, Are you going to let God lead you all the way? Life is a journey from here to there. Today I want to say that God initiated a journey from here to there, God will make it evident that you are going to make that journey. But if it is not a God initiated journey then God will be silent.

Well, today, I want to expand upon that discussion. I don’t want you to think that in a God initiated journey that He allows us to take it into our own hands. Do not take the journey and move from here to there. We need God to guide us all the way through our journey. If it is a God initiated journey, He will not only tell you to go, but He guides you all the way.

Let us explore the idea, as we look at our Scripture today from Psalm 32:8 - “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with my eye.”

God does not say that He will instruct you and teach you in the way that you go if He has the time. Do you know what that means? God always has time for you. It does not matter if your journey is a short journey, a medium size journey, or an extremely long journey, the God of this universe has time for you.

The Lord, if it is a God initiated journey, always has time to guide us from here to there. He never makes the excuse of having no time.

Now think about your life. How many times have you been disappointed in the last two years? You had a plan to go to India, or a trip to go on vacation. But, because of Covid-19 you have canceled all your plans several times. God’s ways and His plans are higher than your ways.

Look at the verses Isaiah 55:8-9 - “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

Do you realize that God has made a personal commitment to you? He will always have time for you. The God of the Universe will never tell us that He doesn't have time for us. Let us meditate on this blessed promised scripture verse of Psalm 32:8. It contains three promises for everyone. I will instruct you in the way you should go, I will teach you in the way you should go, and I will guide you with my eye.

I will Instruct you:

This year 2022, God promises us that I will instruct you in the ways you should go.

A man who had bought a brand new car, replaced the warning lights with spoken instructions in a robot voice. In a monotone voice, the voice would say, "Your door isn’t closed properly." "Your seat-belt isn’t fastened properly." On one occasion he heard the voice and it said, "Your fuel level is getting low." The driver thanked it and figured he had sufficient fuel to take him a further 50 miles, ignored the voice and kept driving. A few minutes later, the voice repeated, "Your fuel level is low." The further he drove the more often the voice repeated the warning.

Getting frustrated, he stopped his car, searched under the dashboard, and found the appropriate wires. He quickly pulled the warning light cable, but a few minutes later his car shut down and stopped. The car was out of fuel.

We all have a little voice within. Sometimes God will speak to us in a small voice or your conscience, and sometimes we "pull its wires." We are late to discover that we have run out of fuel.

The Bible says in Isaiah 30:2, ``Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it” whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left.

I will Teach You:

God promises us here that He will teach us in the way we should go. Our Lord is a teacher and master of all preachers. He does great things, and unsearchable, marvelous things, without number.

John 14:26 - “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” Jesus promises the Holy Spirit that the Mighty Counselor will teach You All things. He will teach and remind us of the way we should go.