When you don't know the way
Do you remember that feeling of being somewhere completely new?
Maybe it was your first day at school - not knowing which way the corridors went, holding your bag a little tighter. Or your first week in a new job, smiling at everyone while quietly panicking inside.
Or maybe it is right now. A season where the familiar things have shifted and you find yourself thinking, “I have never been this way before.”
In today’s devotional, I take you to one of the most quietly powerful verses in the Old Testament - Joshua chapter 3, verse 4. The Israelites are standing on the edge of a flooded river, about to enter land none of them has ever seen. And Joshua tells them to follow the presence of God and keep a little way behind it. Then he tells them why: “You will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before.”
That is not a warning. It is a reason. The not knowing is what keeps your eyes on the guide.
Three things stood out to me from this passage. The unfamiliar is not a mistake - it is where God guides you. God goes first - he is already in the place you have not yet reached. And when you cannot see the way ahead, you do not need a map. You need a pilot.
Your one step for today? Before you face the unfamiliar thing, whisper this: “I have not been this way before, but you have. Lead me.”
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Take care and God bless.
Rob
Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/when-someone-leaves-finding-peace?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true