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God Sees The Maze Of Our Life From Above
I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps. - Jeremiah 10:23
I remember getting lost in a hall of mirrors. The state fair had come to town and one of the exhibits was a place that had a maze for you to navigate through. The maze may not have been all that difficult had it not been for the fact that there were numerous mirrors in it to disorient you. Once you made several turns you quickly forgot the route you had taken to get there. There were also Plexiglas walls that, if you were not careful, you would run into.
I got completely lost! At one point I was nervous. Would I ever find my way out? To my utter embarrassment (especially so since I was a teenager), finally someone came through and helped me out of the maze.
You know if I had been able to look down from above the maze it would have been very easy to find my way out of it. Because of my perspective on the ground, I had a lot of trouble finding my way through.
That's kind of what Jeremiah is saying here about God. On earth we don't have the proper perspective to find our way through the maze of life. Barriers and obstacles block us. Obstacles we didn't know were there. There are a lot of mirrors and other distractions that serve to distract and disorient us. We lose sight of true north.
But God is above us and can see exactly where we are and where we need to go. He's given us a map for the maze (called the Bible). As long as we seek His wisdom in this Book, we'll never get lost.
