Daily Devotions

The prophet Isaiah is perhaps the original Satnav voice. In chapter 30:21 we find him directing, “Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.”

There was a great Presbyterian clergyman and hymn writer, called Rev'd. Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1858 - 1901) who once wrote:

"Christianity is not a voice in the wilderness but a life in the world. It is not an idea in the air but feet on the ground, going God's way. It is not an exotic to be kept under glass, but a hardy plant to bear twelve months of fruits in all kinds of weather. Fidelity to duty is its root and branch. Nothing we can say to the Lord, no calling Him by great or dear names, can take the place of the plain doing of His will. We may cry out about the beauty of of eating bread with Him in His Kingdom, but it is wasted breath and a rootless hope, unless we plow and plant in His Kingdom here and now. To remember Him at His table and to forget Him at ours, is to have invested in bad securities. There is no substitute for plain, every-day goodness."

The late great writer of religious and inspirational poetry, Helen Steiner Rice (1900 - 1981), added her spin on this by saying, "Show me the way, not to fortune or fame, not to win laurels or praise for my name...But show me the way to spread the great story that Thine is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory."

In Isaiah's words words there is an order to finding our feet on the right path.  Our listening antenna must always be switched to receive, regardless of where we find ourselves and even in the most obscure of circumstances we will find the ways of God. For didn't Jesus explain this completely when he said “Jesus said, “I am the Road, also the Truth, also the Life. No one gets to the Father apart from me.” John 14:6 (the Message)

Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for being the way, the truth, and the life. I pray that you guide me on the path that leads to the Father. Help me to always seek your truth and to follow your teachings. I know that without you, I cannot come to the Father, so I ask for your grace and mercy to be with me always. Amen