Saturday... This is one of the reasons why.

There are so many reasons why I have a relationship with God and here is one of them.

Psalm 77:19-20 (NLT) says, "Your road led through the sea, your pathway through the mighty waters - a pathway no one knew was there! You led your people along that road like a flock of sheep. with Moses and Aaron as their shepherds."

I love reading on a daily basis the Bible and about how God has worked in other people's lives and the possibility of how He will work in my life.

Now the phrase that jumped out at me in these two verses is, "a pathway no one knew was there."

Think of this, these people were being chased by a great army and they came up to the Red Sea. They thought they were trapped. From their perspective it was over. They had nowhere to turn. Maybe that is where you are. You are about to face a new year and life had brought you to a brick wall and you have nowhere to go and you are desperate. You don't have any idea what you are going to do.

Here is our problem. We only see what we can see. We are looking through our physical eyes but if you have a relationship with God then you have someone who sees your life in a totally different way. He sees the pathways that no one knows are there. That is one of the reasons why I have a relationship with God.

Our problem is we live life from the perspective of what we can see instead of what God can see. I mean there is a Red Sea and a big army.

It's kind of like the person who bought a box of Ritz crackers to eat on his cruise. He didn't know that his ticket also meant that he had unlimited food. It was a part of the package. And having a relationship with God has pathways in it that no one knows are there. He sees the Red Sea and the army. He sees the sickness. He sees the lost job. He sees the broken relationship. He sees the financial problems. He sees the child with unlimited problems . But He also sees way more and that goes with the package, with the relationship..

And here is the key, He wants to lead you along that road like a flock of sheep. And that is a great reason, a great benefit to having a relationship with God. He sees a pathway that no one else can see. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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