BLESSED ILLUMINATION OF HIS WORD.

" The Illumination of His Word  "

Psalm 119:105 says the word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. 

I was thinking about this scripture today as I was thinking about the many people who aren't sure

of what direction they should be going or what their purpose is in life.
 

As I studied the words in this scripture, it was very insightful...illuminating you might say. 
I would like to share my study with you. 

The word 'lamp' in this scripture was interesting,
it means to break up, to till or to freshly plough. 

The word 'feet' meant to go on foot or spy out on foot -
it reminded me of when God told the children of Israel
to 'spy out the land that He had given them.'

  

As I searched on, I found that 'light' means illuminated or revelation concerning
an illumination of the mind, or understanding.  'Path' means pathway.

Therefore if we look at this now it is literally saying 'the word of God is the thing

that breaks up the fallow ground of my pathway, tills it and gets it ready

to bring forth a harvest AND then that same word brings the illumination,

the revelation, and the understanding of what my pathway actually is. 

That word also lights the way all along the path so that I can continue to walk solidly

in the path that God has prepared for me, prepared by His word.
 

It is the word of God that will reveal the path you are to be on -

it is the word of God that will bring understanding of what way you should go. 

It is the word of God that will cause you to clearly see the way in which you should walk. 

It is even the word of God that will make the path fully tilled to enable you to walk on it without stumbling over stones and debris.  
 

Now it may be the word of God found in the Bible or it may be a word,

a prophetic word spoken over your life. 

It may even be something that God has spoken to you Himself. 

That is your revelation of your path. 

That is the illumination of your pathway. 

Those words are the map to your destination. 

They are your first step and if you will begin to follow those words, they will lead you

all the way to the finish line - the completion of your pathway.

What has God spoken to you? 

What word have you found in the revelation of God's word that jumps in your spirit

and you just know that you know that is what you are destined to do? 

Whatever that is, that is your pathway - begin to walk it.  
  

Continue in that word and allow that word to break up the fallow ground,

allow the word to remove anything and everything that would hinder you

from walking firmly and without stumbling in your pathway. 

Continue in that word and allow it to be the light,

the illumination of where you are going.
  

These days we have GPS systems that tells us every little turn we need to make -

spiritually speaking, we have had a GPS all along, the word of God. 

Psalm 119:133 says 'direct my steps by Your word.' 

Isaiah 30:21 says 'you will hear a word behind you saying

'this is the way, walk in it.'   

God says 'I will lead you and guide you with my eye.'  
  

" All along He is showing us the way,

making it a light and straight path for us -

as long as we follow His word...

how great is our God! "

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                                                                  " Hope in God "

We will always experience suffering during our lives here on our fallen Earth.

When we experience pain, especially the death of a loved one, our natural response is to question,

to ask why, and perhaps even to doubt God.

Because it hurts.

Some people will respond to evil they see by denying that evil exists.

But what is perhaps easy to say is quite difficult to live, or as C S Lewis put it:

“Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong,

you will find the same man going back on this a moment later.”

There is a name for the person who denies good and evil: a sociopath.

Clearly the proper response to evil is not denial.

Other people will respond to evil by removing God from the equation.

But removing God does not make evil less evil, nor pain less painful.

In fact, removing God also removes ultimate hope.

Without God, our world seems permanently and irredeemably evil.

Without God, there is no ultimate relief from pain, only pain.

With God we cry out to a loving Father who remains with us and comforts us as we hurt and

Himself came to Earth as a human being to suffer and die for us.

But without God we cry out into the empty void of nothingness that neither hears our cry nor cares for our pain.

Removing God results in no gain and much loss.

When we have God in our lives and hearts,

we have hope during difficult times and comfort in the midst of tragedy.

We have hope grounded in the fact of God’s mighty power,

His limitless mercy, and everlasting love.

No matter what happens, God loves us because God is love.

And nothing can separate us from Him.

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39

Question : -  What do you need to say to God today in prayer?

                     What questions do you have to ask God?