David sang in Psalm 119:105 (NIV), "Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path." In the image above you will see the same verse typed out but in that image the text was pulled from the Passion Translation. I love that translation. While the NIV may be a more familiar rendering, I feel the Passion translation of this verse is so much more enlightening (pardon the pun). 

The bible isn't just God's word, it's God's truth and it's that truth which sheds a shining light on our path. That light guides us by bringing clarity to the choices and decisions set before us.

It's an awesome privilege that we get to go to God (the creator of everything) when we face a dark, confusing or scary path ahead. What a blessing to have Him light up the way we ought to go. It is not a magic formula though. When the light is shone to light the way before us, we are still the ones who have the power of choice.

The...

There has been a car commercial that has caught my eye over the past few weeks. In this car commercial the narrator says the phrase, "sometimes it is what you see looking back at you that truly moves you forward." We have been doing a series at our Women's Ministry this year called Mirror Mirror and I think that is why this commercial visually stood out to me. It is a flowing, melodic picture of a beautiful car moving through many mirrored scenes, and of course in the commercial the driver is moving elegantly forward into promise and hope and destiny.   

But it was the phrase that arrested my spirit. "It is what you see looking back at you that truly moves you forward." This phrase has caused me to ponder the way many of us go through life as believers. I want to highlight two keys for growth in our faith journey which we must be intentional about pursuing and taking hold of by faith if we want to go after purpose.

Key number one is that if...