It’s good to ask

It’s good to ask

Bible: Psalm 143:4-11

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Show me the way I should go (V.8)

My dad has always had a great sense of direction. He just instinctively knows where north, south, east and west are. It’s like he was born with that sense. And he’s always been right. Until the night he wasn’t. That was the night my dad got lost. He and my mum were meeting friends in a town they’d never been to before. It was dark when they tried to make their way home. Dad was sure he knew the way back to the motorway, but he didn’t. He got turned around, then confused and totally frustrated. My mum told him, “I know it’s hard, but ask your phone for directions. It’s okay.” For the first time in his life, my dad opened up his GPS app! In the Bible, David was a man with a lot of life experience. But the psalms and songs he wrote also show times when it seemed like he felt lost. Psalm 143 is all about one of those times. David’s “heart within [him was] dismayed” (PSALM 143:4). He was in trouble (V.11). So he stepped back from everything and prayed, “Show me the way I should go” (V.8). And David cried out to God, “for to you I entrust my life” (V.8). If the “man after [God’s] own heart” (1 SAMUEL 13:14) felt lost from time to time, it’s a given we too will need to turn to God for His direction

ASKING GOD FOR DIRECTION IS
MORE THAN OKAY—IT’S BEST.

Youth Edition – Our Daily Bread Ministries