“I guide you in the way of wisdom and lead you along straight paths.”
We are reading that promise in Proverbs 4:11.
Yesterday was Friday and I experienced the truth of that promise in a special way. Or should I rather say that I had my eyes especially open to see the leading of the Lord?
I was trying hard to get hold of a Justice of the Peace to sign an important document. Straight away I went to the pharmacy where I usually go for things like that, only to find out that the man I wanted was away.
A lady customer in the shop I had never met before heard me talking about my problem and told me that they would stamp my document at the local courthouse. But instead to go straight to the courthouse I went to three other places in town hunting for a Justice of the Peace without success.
Eventually I got my business done at the courthouse and I am still thankful to the Lord for the stranger at the pharmacy.
Last Sunday I was not successful in picking up a magazine at the local Salvation Army premises. The premises of the Salvation Army are almost beside the Post Office where I was just about to post my signed and stamped document.
But before doing so it came to my mind to go to the Salvation Army building to enquire after the magazine. Just about when I was entering the building the Corps Officer came towards me and told me that he had found the magazines for last week not all that long ago.
All the saints are rejoicing when they are thinking about the leading of the Lord.
Fanny Crosby is one of the saints and she gave us the beautiful hymn which begins like this:
