Do you need clarity in your life right now?

It’s true we are all travelling along life’s pathway on a unique journey.  Sometimes the path is straight and flat, and other times it can be steep with blind corners.  We can’t always see where we are going.  It’s why we need people around us to share the journey, to encourage us on and to tell us we can get up this steep terrain.  

Seeing clearly is an important tool in life.  I remember being out in my car on the motorway one day.  It was cold and wet.  I distinctly remember being in the middle lane.  Without warning, the whole windscreen fogged up so I couldn’t see anything.  For a moment, I was in a state of panic.   Do I try to move to the inside lane or stay where I am?  Well, I couldn’t see any vehicles to my left, but I wasn’t sure if I might smash into one if I tried to move.  So, I stayed where I was in the middle lane, and thankfully, as I tried to clear the windscreen on the inside, it started to clear.  Wow, that was a scary moment, not being able to see where I was going and feeling hemmed in.

So, on your journey of life, are you on a straight path at the moment, flat and easy to navigate, or does it feel like you are climbing up a steep hill, not knowing when the climb will end?

If it feels like the path is straight for you, can I encourage you to think of your family and friends and work colleagues, maybe someone in your street, and think if any of them are currently on an uphill climb?   Can you get alongside them to encourage them to keep going?

And if you feel like you are climbing at the moment, feeling out of breath, not sure when it will ease, let me encourage you to keep going.  Life has a habit of working itself out.  You will come through this; allow others to walk with you, to carry your bags, and to help you through this season.  The thing about seasons is they don’t stay the same.  However long winter may seem, it does eventually turn into spring and then summer, and then you will be walking on flat, straight ground again.

For some of you reading this, you may feel like you are on straight, flat ground, but you need clarity about where you are going.  Life passes us by so quickly.   When there is a fork in the road, we need to be confident that we are taking the right path.

Here are 3 scriptures that might help you:

Proverbs 3:5–6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart… and he will make your paths straight.”

Clarity comes from trusting God rather than overthinking everything on our own.

Psalm 119: 105 “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”

God’s Word helps you see clearly how to live and make good decisions.

James 1:5 “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God… and it will be given to you.”

Clarity is something you ask for in prayer.

An old song that I used to sing when I was 10 years old just came back to me.

“When the road is rough and steep, fix your eyes upon Jesus, he alone has power to keep fix your eyes upon him.”

Let’s keep journeying together.