The guide forever. Psalm 48 verse
14 says for this God, this God,
the one I just talked about for 13 verses, is our God forever
and ever. He will be our guide even unto
death. He's going to be our guide. And
I was thinking, if I had to, electricity went out for a long
time or something, I'd have a few things to study so I could get
a message from God to you, what I'd like to have. I'd probably
want a strong concordance, because I just can't remember everything.
I don't remember everything. And a good thesaurus I want to
say the same word about four different ways and we can get
it. And the Lord don't really use complicated things, does
he? A guide. You know what a guide is? I looked
it up just in case. They show the way. You go somewhere, either in body,
we're traveling from point A to point B, or in mind, we're going
to guide you through learning English, or whatever. They're
going to show you the way. They're going to teach you some
things. They're going to influence you while you're doing this,
and show you what right is, and the customs, and courtesies,
and the things. I won't get to my illustration already, but
they take you through that journey, and look after you, and protect
you, and are responsible for you. It says, this God, our God,
forever and ever, He will be our guide, even unto death. He will be our guide unto death.
That literal translation there for unto is above, over, above
death, over death, beyond death, and on top of, on top of death.
He's going to guide you to death and then on top of that, He's
going to guide you. God is our guide. This God. He's our guide unto death, that's
for sure, but also beyond. This has no end. No end. I hope that's good news for your
heart. The scriptures say, not necessarily the glass is half
full, half empty, but if we're going to put joy in our heart,
not bitterness, it says He loved them to the end. Somebody said,
there's an end to it. The end of what? The end of eternity.
How far is that? Wait. There ain't no end to it. Love without end. This God that
is our God forever and ever, He will be our guide to the death
of this body and forever. Turn back just a few pages there
to Psalm 32. Psalm 32, verse 8. Psalm 32, 8 says, I will instruct
thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go. I'm going to show you a way,
and you might go that way, and I'm going to show you a way,
and it'd be kind of handy if you went that way. No, I will. The Lord, this God, that's our
God, I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou
shalt go. I will guide thee with mine eye. The Lord has a lot of eyes, don't
He? He's omnipresent, He's omniscient, He's omnipotent, all-powerful,
all-seeing, everywhere. And not just that this God who
is our God, not that He'll keep an eye on us. That's what I try
to do. That's what you try to do. A
cat, you try to keep an eye on. A bird or whatever, something.
Try to keep an eye on my vegetables. Try. Not that he's going to keep
his eye on us. More than that, he will guide
us with his eye. Instruct us and teach us in the
way that we shout, go. I ain't going to get off the
beaten path. I ain't going to get left behind. You ain't either.
You ain't gonna fall back and turn around and get lost and,
well, we can't find him. Nope. He's gonna guide you with
his eye. We are strangers in this world.
We live here. We're alive right now in this
world, ain't we? This body is. We're strangers here. And we're
in this world, but we're not of this world. And we're on that
pilgrimage of repentance from the mind of the flesh to the
mind of Christ. from just the dregs of this world
to be in the presence of our Redeemer. How far is that? It's pretty far. He's our guide.
His eye is on us through that. He guides us with His eye. We're
the children of Israel. And just as they, that physical
nation, they walked through that wilderness. They weren't in Egypt
anymore, but guess what? They weren't in Canaan yet either,
was they? We're not of this world anymore. The Lord just called
us out of it and gave us life. Oh, I'm still here, but I ain't
in heavenly canyon yet. What am I going to do? He's going
to guide us with his eye. But they were on a journey from
one to another, weren't they? And while God instructs and teaches
His people, His eyes guiding them through all of His will,
and His providence, and His purpose, and we don't really know what's
going on. I know what the Lord has done.
I can look back, hindsight's 20-20 and it may be a little
worse than that, but I can kind of see some things the Lord's
done, and I know who He is, I know where He is. I don't know what
tomorrow holds. The Lord may take me home in
15 minutes. I don't know what He's going to do. He does. That's my comfort. I can't see
things clearly. It's dimly. He sees perfect. He's my sight. And we shout go. He's gonna guide
us with his eye the way we shout go. Where are we going? Thomas
asked these things. I don't even know the way. I
don't know where you're going. What are you talking about? I'm
glad he asked things because I'd want to ask things. All the
way to him. He's going to guide us all the
way to Himself. It's just the Father draws Him.
That ain't hard, is it? He's got a people. He ain't going
to lose none of them. He's going to do the hedging
about in the garden and every book you can think of, He shows
us and pull us all the way and you ain't going, you shout no.
You ain't getting away. You're His. And that may be rough
at times. We may get jerked along, you
know, and we thank Him. That's good. That's right, isn't
it? It's right. We're passing through this barren
desert, this world, and we must pass through it. We have to. And we need guidance. And it's
so bare. this life, we can't find our
way around by looking around. If you look to this world, you're
just going to find more confusion. I've been in sandy deserts. I used to teach land navigation
for the reconnaissance school in the United States Army. I've
taught people how to do terrain association, intersection and
resection, all them old things people in the Marines might forget
later on. I taught those things and I knew
them. I could still recite them and take me out a bunch of sand
dunes. You better have a compass. Can't tell nothing. Can't tell
up from down, can you? It's a desert. That's this world.
It's dust. And it ain't going to change. I heard a fellow say
one time back in the 80s, he said, you want to end world hunger?
Take all those trucks that are taking the food to the people. He said, take them empty and
bring the people back where the food is. And he said, because there's
a desert. And I went out in my yard, I
looked, and it says decomposed granite and sand. I could pick
it up, nothing grows there. That's this world. I'm literally
in a desert, but that's this whole globe that we live on.
And I can go out in my driveway and pick it up and look, and
you can't grow nothing in there. What's that gonna be in a hundred
years? Decomposed granite and dust? That ain't changing, is
it? He guides us through this barren,
forsaken land. But God is with His children
in this world. Turn over to John 17. I'm making a little ahead
of Wednesday, but we'll remember when we get there Wednesday.
John 17. Here in verse 9, in the Lord's high priestly prayer,
speaking of those disciples, and us too. John 17, 9, he said,
I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but
for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine. Verse
14, I have given them thy word, and the world's hated them, because
they're not of the world. Even, same way, as I'm not of
the world. That's unpleasant at times. You
have people hate you because of the gospel. You have affliction
because of His word. Why would you say such a thing,
Kevin? Well, I didn't say it. The Lord said it. It's His word. They get mad at me, that's fine. It's an unpleasant journey at
times, but we're going to have to complete it. Look at verse
15. Lord Jesus Christ speaks to the
Father. He said, I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of
the world. They need to be here. This is
hard. Uh-huh. There's resistance. Yeah. He's guiding us. Remember? He's planning the trip.
He knows the route. I pray not that thou shouldst
take them out of the world, but thou shouldst keep them from
the evil. Keep them. You pray to be kept. or keep
me. He prayed for me. He prayed for
you. He said, Peter, I prayed that
your faith fail not. You can substitute Christ in
that. I prayed that your Christ fail not. Well, that ain't going
to happen. Your faith is my faith. I prayed for it. It ain't going
nowhere, is it? Now it's going to be some rough times. Keep
us from the evil. They are not of the world, even
as I am not of the world. We're here, but look here at verse
24. John 17, 24. Father, I will that they also,
whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am. That's the end
of the guidance. That's unto death. That's above
death. We're going to be where He is. That's in time, isn't
it? I hope I'm a grandparent someday.
I do. Not tomorrow. It ain't time yet. It ain't time yet. But in time. But also with that, bifocal,
trifocal, quadfocal, as he's saying, right? I will that they
also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am. Here's
a simple statement. If He is with me, that means
I'm with Him. And if He's in me, I'm in Him. We're joined. Now I'm here, and
He's with us. And I don't understand it. It's
so. He's on His throne. He's in glory
right now. And we're with Him. We'll get
there. We've been here the whole time.
We'll understand what unity is. That word means something in
a dictionary somewhere right now. Oh, we'll get it. Now we
get it. We're with Him. He was with Israel in the wilderness,
wasn't He? That's what they're in Acts 7, it talks about Moses.
And he said to the children of Israel, he said, a prophet, the
Lord your God, raised up to your brethren like unto me. He's going
to tell you things, him ye shall hear. When he speaks, you're
going to hear him. And he said, this is he, that
prophet the Lord's going to raise up, Christ, that was in the church
in the wilderness. That's talking about Moses and
him walking through the wilderness. He said, that was the same one
he's going to raise up. He was already in them back in the wilderness.
In them. With them. That was the Lord
Jesus Christ. It's His church that was in that
wilderness just as we're His church in this wilderness. And
He did not leave them, but He led them through the wilderness,
didn't He? He ain't left us. He's leading us, isn't He? Through
the wilderness and out of it. He was in them. He guided them
all the way into Canaan for 40 years. They were not left alone,
but their steps were ordered. His isle guided them. Our text
says that for this God, who is our God forever and ever, He
will be our guide even unto death. Christ is our guide. And to guide
someone, you've got to go before them. You've got to go in front
of them, don't you? He didn't say, go see what's
around that corner. He says, come, follow me. Come,
come. In Hebrews 6, He said, He's the
forerunner. He's the forerunner and has entered
in for us, Jesus. And He's made a high priest.
He went into that holy of holies for us as our high priest after
the order of Melchizedek and it says high priest forever.
That ain't gonna change. God, our refuge, our forerunner,
He's already entered into that holy of holies and our text says
forever and ever. Interceding for us forever and
ever. He must go before. Why must he
go before? He must be the guide. I can't
make that journey. Mankind can't make that journey.
He's the way, the way, because he's the only one that can tread
that voyage. People, my family, my family,
I never said it. They blazed trails. If you went through the
woods, real deep forest, and you cut a trail through there,
you are blazing a trail. I can't blaze that trail. He's
the only one that can. And I thought of Ephesians 4.
Who's ascended into the hill? In Psalms, Paul answers us. In
Ephesians 4.10, he that descended, he's the only one ever descended,
he comes from heaven, is the same also that ascended up far
above all heavens that he might feel all things. That's him. He went before us. He conquered
the grave before us. He did everything for us before
us. He's already did it. And he's
there. God is our God forever and he's
our guide. I had a guide one time. Me and
you had a guide back in December. We went to Australia. And my
friend, my brother Angus, took us around Sydney. And I followed
him. He was my guide. We understand
this, right? He knew where he was. I didn't know where I was. I said, well, that's water and
that's a hill and that's an opera house. I mean, there's a little
bit I could tell. I'm not a complete fool. I can
find a bathroom sometimes. But he knew where everything
was. He knew how everything worked.
He explained things to me that I never seen. I don't know how
that works. Do I have to put something in this thing for this
gate to open? He said, here, let me show you how it works. He taught me
how to do things. And he instructed me where to
go and how to act. This is our custom. This is how
we do things. And he showed me. And you know what? It was free.
Do we pay anything free? Why? He loved us. He loved us,
and he took us around. He was our God. Kimberly couldn't see Angus while
we was walking. Do you know what she looked for? My big ears. I stick up higher than most people,
and in the military, we'd all come out and we'd redeploy, and
everybody's dressed. Normally, you do dress right
dress, and I was on towards the end, towards the front. But she
just looked for my ears sticking out underneath that cap and she
knew that was me. Why would she follow me? I'm following Him. What would my pastor tell you?
Follow the man that's following Christ, right? What would I tell
somebody else? If your pastor's following Christ,
follow that man. If he ain't worthy to follow,
pick another one and follow him. But you find somebody that's
following Christ. If you can't trust that one, find one God's
initial heart to that you do trust and move to him and help
him and look for his big ears. Maybe he's got, I don't know,
red hair or something. Maybe he's got some different distinguishing
feature that you can cling to, but go to that one. The whole
time we was there, we was being guided. I had no reason to panic.
Did I? Why? He loved me. Is he going
to take me on the rough side of town and get me kidnapped?
No, he cares for me. That's my family. He's my older
brother, isn't he? What did I do? Just relax. Take
in the scenery. Look at what God created. That's
a fancy bay. The Lord made that bay. How deep
is it? Oh, that's wonderful. The Lord
made it so big ships could come in. Just appreciate it. Just walk around. I knew that
that evening I was going to be at Angus' house. And so we walked
around and we ate food and enjoyed it. We took some pictures of
Sydney. And we took the time and enjoyed it what time I followed
my guide. That's kind of a long illustration.
We're here. The Lord's guiding us. It's in
His hand. Eat you some fish and chips and
take a picture. If you see a pretty mountain, there's a... Ah! Hummingbirds!
I love hummingbirds. They're out in full force right
now. The Lord knows them and I want to look at them. Eat your
ham sandwich, it's fine. Turn over to Exodus 13. This
ain't nothing new. Our God is the same yesterday,
today and forever. There's no Old Testament God
and New Testament God. And if you think so, you better be quiet.
Find you a guide and get underneath them and wait six months or six
years or something and the Lord may teach you something. Here
in Exodus 13. Exodus 13 verse 17. It says, And it came to pass,
when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them, had guided
them, didn't he? Not through the way of the land
of the Philistines, although that was near. Well, Lord, we
can get there if we just go straight over that way. And you took us
that way. He took them the long way, not
the shortcut. Who was leading? God led them. Who was their God?
God was their God. For God said, let us perventure
the people repent when they see the war. Their hearts turn, they
get scared, and they run. And they return to Egypt. They'd be led into temptation,
wouldn't they? In fact, took the easy route. What we think
is good, the way that seems right to us, is temptation. What our
Lord? He taught us to pray and lead
us. What's that mean? Guide us, not
into temptation, but deliver us from evil. That way over there,
it's near. It's a shortcut. It's easier
terrain to walk. There's more shade that way.
And the Lord said, no, he knows what's best. Father knows best. There used
to be a TV show and that's a good thing it ought to be now. Well,
fathers ought to know best, and as goes the pulpit, so goes you.
Father knows best. Our Heavenly Father knows best.
And I think, boy, it should be awful easier if He did it this
way. It don't matter what I think. He's right. Verse 18. But God
led the people about through the way of the wilderness of
the Red Sea, and the children of Israel went up, harnessed
out of the land of Egypt. Verse 21. And the Lord went before
them by day in a pillar of a cloud to lead them the way, and by
night a pillar of fire to give them light, to go by day and
by night, night and day. I love to hear my friend sing
Psalm 121. He will not suffer thy foot to
be moved. He's going to plant your feet. They're going to go.
You shout to go. He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold,
he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Night
and day. I sleep. You sleep. I get tired. He don't. That's our God. That's who's God. This God, that's
our God. He's our God. Look at verse 22,
Exodus 13, 22. He took not away the pillar of
the cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before
the people. He was leading and guiding them. They had never
been in the wilderness. We had never been in the wilderness,
had we? And we don't know the way, but we have the comfort
and we have the assurance that our capital G Guide does. It's His wilderness. And we follow
Him. We follow Him. Turn over Hebrews
11. This will be good too. Hebrews 11 verse 8. Hebrews 11 verse 8 says, By faith
Abraham, when he was called to go out to a place which he should
after receive for inheritance, obeyed. And he went out not knowing
whether he win. The Lord said, Come on. And he
went. What's the word in your Bible?
Obeyed. Why? By faith. Faith and obedience
go hand in hand. If you believe, you obey. By
faith, he sojourned in a land of promise. He followed the guide
where he had never been before. As in a strange country, he was
dwelling in tabernacles. That's what we do here. Tents.
A temporary home. My home up there on Lost Valley
might as well be a motel room. I've got to keep the grass, make
sure the well runs, or whatever. I've got to keep the place up.
That's the Lord's house. I'm just passing through. I just
happen to be here. "...with Isaac and Jacob, the
heirs with him of the same promise. For, because of this faith given
to him, to look to Christ the God. For he looked..." The verb,
that's what you do while you wait. Wait on the Lord. You look to Him. He looked for
a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God."
How long did he look? To the end. All the way until
he died. Until he was in that city. And then he walked around
the city and said, this is beautiful. You did wonderful. I'm going
to praise him. Job followed God, didn't he?
He had a rough go. That was a hard time, the trials
that that man had. He said, Behold, I go forward,
but he's not there, and backward, but I can't perceive him on the
left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him. He hideth
himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. You ever felt
that way? Where is he? The Lord's hid his face from
me. I just, I can't see. I pick up the text, and I read, and
I say, Lord, I need a message for these people. You know that.
You've sent me here. I got, that's just nothing. Nothing,
and I thought, well, let me look over here, let me look over there.
Are you clean gone forever? We get scared, don't we? And
Job said, but he knoweth the way I take. Job said, I don't
know the way I'm taking, but I know the one that does know.
But he knoweth the way I take. When he hath tried me, I shall
come forth as gold. I know what's going on. But the
trying, that fire's still hot, ain't it? It's still hard. Sometimes we seek the Lord and
can't find Him. We get frazzled and we get nervous, but our confidence
is in the Lord that knows the way and that He guides us. That's
our confidence. Turn over to Isaiah 30. Isaiah 30, Luke verse 20. Just like Job, many times our
trials are Heavy and hard and rough. But the Lord's bringing us through
that. He didn't bring us the shortcut that would harm us. He brought us the way that's
right. It glorifies Him. It's for our good. Isaiah 30
verse 20. And though the Lord give you
the bread of adversity and the water of affliction. That seems
like what we're consuming sometimes. That's all that goes into me
is just affliction and adversity. Yet shall not thy teachers be
removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy
teachers, see your God. And thine ears shall hear a word
behind thee, saying..." What time are your ears going to hear?
And you're eating the bread of adversity, and you're drinking
the water of affliction, and you hear a voice behind us, which
you can't really see, that says, this is the way. Walk ye in it. When you turn to the right hand,
that's what it's telling him. When you turn to the left hand,
that's what it's telling him. Right now, turn right. Turn left.
This is the way. Walk. That's the way you shout,
go. Is that right? That's what the other scripture
said. He's our guide. How are we going to learn about
a guide? How is somebody going to learn
about a God? How is somebody going to learn about this God
that is our God? I thought of that Ethiopian eunuch.
That man traveled 2,000 miles to get a word from God, to be
blessed by God, to have some comfort for his soul, to hear
about salvation, didn't he? And he got all the way up to
that big religious city where all them big religious people
and all them big religious colleges and all them churchy folks was,
and he sat there all week and he got nothing. He showed up
with the same thing, or he left the same thing, showed up with
misery. No comfort. None. He left just as empty as
he arrived. And he was looking for a way.
But that's what religion has, just a way or that way or some
other way, isn't it? That's not the way. That's not
the way. He was going to make it on his
own. He had his own discernment. And so he sat down with the scriptures
and he read Isaiah 53. And he, an Ethiopian, in that
Ethiopian Bible, he read that and he knew what that word said,
and he knew what that word meant, because he could read. And he
read it, and he read it out loud. He could say it out loud, and
he didn't understand. How's he going to know the God?
How? Then Philip was sent, wasn't
he? The Lord said, get down there, Philip, and he ran. He didn't
lollygag. He didn't talk about going down
there. He went down there. Philip ran up next to him, and he said,
Understandest thou what thou readest? He had said, Do you
know what you're reading? Can you pronounce the words correctly?
Can you spell them right? No. A kid can do that. He said,
Do you understand what you're reading? What did he say? Acts
8, 31. And he said, How can I except
some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he
would come up and sit with him. Philip said, scoot over, I'll
tell you what it means. You got knowledge, you can read.
I'm going to give you understanding. He was sent to give knowledge
and understanding. Well, I understand a lot. No, he didn't. He was
humbled. And he said, teach me. Tell me what this means. And
Philip guided the eunuch. And you know where Philip guided
the eunuch? Philip was following THE guide,
the capital G guide, and he was just next in line, just following
the leader, wasn't he? Where did Philip take him? Philip
opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached
unto him, Jesus. Preached the Lord to him. THE
guide sent A guide, and Philip needed Christ to guide him just
as much, and no different than that eunuch needed him to guide
him. And he was just a mercy beggar telling another beggar
where he found bread. He said, come on. Paul wrote to Corinth. He said, be ye followers of me,
even as I also am of Christ. I said that Genesis 32, look
there's corn in Egypt. I'm going. How about you? Are you going to go? There's
corn there. We're going to go to Joseph and
get corn and live. I'm going. I recommend you come with me.
Be nice if you did. Paul wrote to Thessalonica, and
he said, Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God, I know
you, children of God, I know it. You speak the language I
speak. He said, For our gospel came
not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy
Ghost, and in much assurance, as you know what manner of men
we were among you for your sakes, and you became followers of us,
and of the Lord, because that's who we're following. If we're
always walking at one point out there in the parking lot, we're
going to converge, ain't we? We converge here every Wednesday
and twice on Sunday. Those following him do. He said,
I haven't received the word with much affliction. We stubbed our
toes a lot on this walk, didn't we? We got some bumps and bruises
with the joy of the Holy Ghost, but it's good. Our guide, the
trip he's brought us on is a good trip, isn't it? We look before
in John 16, it says, Howbeit when the Spirit of truth is come,
he will guide you into all truth. For he shall not speak of himself,
but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak, and he will
show you things to come." How is it that anybody knows the
truth? That's how we know Christ is the way, isn't it? Through
the preaching of the gospel, the Holy Ghost proclaims Him
in the heart. And what does He say? Just like
in Isaiah 30, Christ is the way, walk in Him. walk in him. How can I walk in him? What did
he say? He said, these are my people, I will walk in them. Seek me with all your, with your
face, with all your heart. And David said, what? You say
seek, and seek me? And he said, I'll seek you. So,
on your word, I'll do it. Because you're my guide. We have
to wait for his children to be spoken to for the very first
time. He has a people out there still, because we're still on
this earth. And I gotta wait, and you gotta wait. What's it
gonna say to the people? It may be here, it may be in
the next county over, it may be across the border right there,
it may have one down that way. I don't know where they are.
We just gotta wait till he speaks word. And we have to wait on
a word from the God every day from our Lord. And he will be
our guide above death. Isaiah 42, 16 says, I will bring
the blind by a way they knew not. I will lead them in paths
they have not known. I will make darkness light before
them and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them
and not forsake them." He told Peter, he said, rise, kill, and
eat, Peter. He said, I ain't never eat nothing like that.
He said, don't you dare call something unclean, I call clean.
And then a day or so later, Peter figured out he was talking about
Gentiles, us Gentiles, not what kind of meat he was eating. None
of us understand what the Lord is doing on a daily basis, but
the Spirit shows us things to come. I know the end state. I
know the death of this body is going to come and I'm going to
be made like my Savior. But that bread of adversity and
that water of affliction, I don't know what that's going to be
tomorrow. Many times we don't know, but we prepare and we look
to Him the best we can. going on a ruck march, or going
on a big hike. If the guide that you have puts on his shoes, put
on your shoes. If the guide you have puts on
a rucksack, puts on a backpack, I'm going to pick my backpack
up. If they top off their water bottle, I better top off my water
bottle. Got a little bit, I think he's about to start walking.
What about you? We're growing up, aren't we? People here, you ever got an
umbrella? Why would you pack an umbrella? It's going to rain.
See big thunderclouds coming, don't we? The Lord said that.
He said, you can see a cloud rise out of the west straight
away. And you say, the shower cometh. Rain's coming. And he
said, and so it is. And you say, it's the south wind
blow. And you will say, there will be heat. Saint Annas are
coming. It's going to get hot. And he
said, and it cometh to pass. He said, you hypocrites, you
can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is
it that you cannot discern this time? Can't we see what the Lord is
doing? David was so distraught over
his son being ill. And when his servants, they were
so nervous to tell him, they come to him and said, your son
is dead. He got up. He cleaned his face, he put on
the best clothes he had, and he went and worshipped God. And
they said, that scared death. What are you doing? He said,
well, he said, while the child was yet alive, I fasted and went,
for I said, who can tell whether God be gracious to me that the
child may live? Should he have not prayed and
fasted and went? Of course he should have. That's waiting,
isn't it? That's the bear, that's walking. Paul said, while Paul
waited on the Lord, he was running a race. He said, but now he's dead. Wherefore
should I fast? I was prepared for that, and
that's not what the Lord had. Okay, well, we'll move this way. I'll go that way. There's a problem
I think the Lord's solving in another place right now. I was
talking to a friend of mine, and I said, I know. I've been
guided down this path long enough. I don't know really what's going
on. I don't know what's coming. But I've seen behind us enough.
The Lord's going to fix this and it will not be in a way we
think it's going to be. Like we daydream and daydream
and daydream. Well, if the Lord would just do this, if the Lord
would just do that, if he'd bring this in here, he'd push that
away. If the Lord would do this, everything would be fine. How
he's going to do it is not how I think it's going to be. And
you know what happened? It looks like something's coming
up that I knew that it wouldn't be something I'd expected and
I was like, this is even better. That's amazing. I'd have never
come up with that. I like my guide. Do you? I wish I could quit trying to
tell him which way to turn and just look at the scenery and
eat fish and chips and take pictures and be grateful for hummingbirds
and sunny days and be thankful for the rain and be thankful
for the pain. He sent that to and the blisters
and the hot spots would get on our feet. God gave them to us. It's good. I don't know what
He's going to do yet, but it's good. We'll see Him in it. I want to
be thankful for Him. And then I can't get over it,
Psalm 47. Oh, clap your hands, all you
people, and shout unto God with the voice of triumph. Hearts
clap when you see Him and hear Him. He's triumphant. The journey's
done. But like look last hour, He's
establishing. Is it finished? It's finished. Is He establishing?
Yep. Because he's got children to
call out. And I want to be used. Maybe that last one, maybe I
could do something. Lord, use me some way. And he calls that last one, and
they see him, we could go home. All of us together, we just hold
that and sing. And then that whole song, it'll rhyme when
we sing it. It'll sound real good. All right.