Guiding Promises

This morning I appreciated reading from Elisabeth Elliot's book, A Slow and Certain Light. In one passage she quotes verses that speak poignantly to me in this season of my life. When sometimes I feel very much like I am standing at a crossroads in the middle of a forest with fog rolling close around and no signs posted to show me where to go, these verses stick.

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"If you can't see the way before you:

'I will lead the blind in a way that they know not, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground.' (Is. 42:16))



"If no way looks possible at all:

'And I will make my mountains a way, and my highway shall be raised up.' (Is. 49:11)



"If you are confused or distressed:

'I will lead him and requite him with comfort.' (Is. 57:18)



"If you falter or are fearing failure:

'Thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling…?'" (Ps. 56:13)