Notes of Faith January 11, 2025

Psalm 25 for 2025: Show Me Your Paths

Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; on You I wait all the day.

Psalm 25:4-5

Isaiah 55:8-9 (nkjv)

8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.

9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are My ways higher than your ways,

And My thoughts than your thoughts.

Imagine going to your mailbox on January 1 and finding a large envelope. You open the envelope and discover a 2025 calendar. In the space allocated for each day you find the details of what will happen in your life that day.

Sound impossible? Even though you won’t receive such a calendar from God, you have a promise from Him that can put to rest your fears and doubts about the direction your life will take this year. Psalm 139:16 says, “You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed” (NLT). That’s why we can pray, with the psalmist that God will show us how to walk in His ways and His paths—because He already knows what we need to do.

If you want to walk in God’s ways, in God’s truth this year, then ask Him to show you the steps you should take—beginning today!

God’s ways are behind the scenes, but He moves all the scenes which He is behind.

John Nelson Darby

Have you broken any New Year’s resolutions so far this year? How about your desire to walk closer with Jesus? Are you praying more? Are you reading God’s Word faithfully every day? Are you responding to the circumstances of life differently than you did in the past? We are created in the image of God, meant to be a reflection of His character. Let us pursue God in thought, words and deeds as long as we have breath in this life. His glory will be revealed to us both now and forevermore!

Pastor Dale