We Need A Guide
An excellent reading for today from the Sound Bites Ministry , entitled We Need A Guide. God makes a promise, then tells Abraham to leave home and go where God will guide him. Ben Patterson tells of a common experience of westerners, particularly missionaries, traveling through jungle sections of the Amazon. They will ask members of a village to give them directions to where they want to go. "I have a compass, a map, and some coordinates." The villager knows precisely the directions to get them there, but he offers to take them himself. "No, that's okay. I don't want a guide. I just want directions." "That's no good. I must take you there." "But I have a map right here. And I have a compass. And the coordinates." "It does not work that way. I can get you there, but I must take you myself. You must follow me." We prefer directions, principles, steps, keys. We prefer these things because they leave us ...