Guidance of God based on Bible

 

THE GUIDANCE OF GOD

A Tract printed by GURUDEV SHRI LAHARI KRISHNA.

The Hebrew of Proverbs 4:12 reads “As thou goest step by step the way shall be opened up before thee”, What comfort these words bring to perplexed and troubled souls.

We would like to know the end from the beginning. We would like to know what the future holds. We would like to make our plans years ahead, but God’s way is for us to walk with Him one step at a time. Our fallen nature demands our obeying only our five senses. This is a life of faith and walk of faith.

Perhaps some who read this are troubled by the black clouds that are gathering in the horizon. Perhaps you are confronted with problems that seem to have no answer. You are faced with such great difficulties that you do not see how that you can possibly get through. For this reason you are in the depths of despair. Your soul is cast down and filled with heaviness. You have lost the joy of your salvation, hence you have lost the testimony for Christ.

The trouble is, you have your eyes on your troubles and not on Christ. His promise is “as thou goest step by step, the way shall be opened up before thee”. Our part is to keep on moving forward one step at a time. His part is to open up the way before us. He has prepared everything for us.

(meditate on Eph.2:8-10

8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

9  Not of works, lest any man should boast.

10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them)

Perhaps the Lord has put you in this difficult situation in order to teach you to try Him. He wants to teach you to walk with Him. You wish to walk and live in your own way, the Lord wants to teach you to walk in His own way. His way is the right way. It is the best way. See how he taught the Israelites in the wilderness and Job (Read Job 23:9-10 & Deut.29:5-6). See what price Job paid to shout, “My Redeemer Liveth”

[Ref. Job 19: 23-25 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:].

 Today people preach a false and easy religion of miracles and prosperity ‘the people who rejected God’s way’. See II Thess.2:7-14.

7  For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

8  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

9  Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

10  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12  That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

13  ¶But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

14  Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

When the children of Israel crossed the river Jordan the priest had to dip their feet in the brink of the river before the waters receded before them. They did not stand still waiting for God to roll the waters back, and they did not plunge in over their heads. Neither did they stand scheming and planning how they might get across by building boats or bridges. They simply obeyed God and the things which he told them to do. This is God’s way. What joy and peace we find as we walk in this way. To find the perfect will of God remember these points.

1. First your heart must not have the will of your own. Once you keep your heart at this point over a given matter, then you are only a little way to the knowledge of God’s will (John 7:17  If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.). Totally depend on God.

2. Do not leave the result to feelings or simple impressions or false prophesies. If so you will come under great delusions as many Christians are without surrendering their will but dictate to God what their will is and asking God to obey their will. This is a powerful center for the devil and emotions to work.

3. Then see the will of the spirit of God in connection with the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must agree. That is our Urim & Thummim. If you look to the Spirit alone without the Word like many believers, as they did, then you are in delusions too and become anti-Christs.

4. Now watch carefully the providential circumstances. This is walking, “without shoes”. We walk roughly with shoes on but slowly without them. These will indicate God’s will in connection with the Word and the Spirit.

5. Then prayerfully ask God to reveal His will correctly and clearly.

After considering all these things you will be able to come to some clear decision prayerfully. God hears your prayers at the end-time positively (John 16:23-24). Then after a few “believing” prayer your mind will come to perfect peace.

In my forty years of full-time dependence on the Lord I have found this method unfailing and I am able to please God totally. Otherwise I will be like Samson grinding the Mill without his eyes in some man made denominations. This way will keep your eyes open without getting into Spiritual blindness, and putting your load on others. I am a very happy man since I came to trust our Lord and Redeemer. In this way riches and prosperity are not everything in this world (I Timothy 6:9-10 & I John 2:15-17). The people of God are a movement not a dead monument. The donkey of Balaam had better guidance than the prophet Balaam (Num.22:12-35).

CHRIST JESUS NEVER FAILS!