Oh – the questions, so many questions.  Before high school, what do you want to be when you grow up? After high school, where are you going to college?  In college, what are you studying?  If you decide that college isn’t on your path, why not? Are you just taking a year off to “find yourself”?  After college, where do you want to work?  If you found a special someone in college, when’s the wedding? If you do move away, why that place or when are you coming back home?  Not to mention later in life questions, why aren’t you married yet?  Or if you are married, when are you two going to bring precious kids into the world?

Everyone means well but it is daunting.  In this time of your life, there are so many unknows and the fear of making a wrong choice.  You don’t have all the answers, and certainly not the one right one as everyone makes you believe.  AH, but you do.

I remember we all used to joke around in Sunday School that if the teacher called on us and we didn’t know the answer, we would yell, Jesus, God, or the Bible – one of those worked nearly every time.  We thought we were so smart.   It worked out fine until we all hit a fit of giggles when one kid yelled all three of them at the same time, in what I can only guess was a nervous outburst. Happens to all of us.

But right now in life, in any point of life, the correct answer is all 3.  In Psalm 25, a rich, poignant passage, and beautiful because of how David, yet again, calls out to God with His heart, in turn, also understanding God’s heart. In Psalm 25:10,

“All the paths of the LORD are lovingkindness and truth

To those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.”

So, see, you do have the right answer to every question life will throw at you every time.  Think about it.  The verse doesn’t say some of the paths.  It doesn’t say, only the paths you are sure of.  It tells me what I have observed since following Christ with my whole heart.  It says ALL paths. Sure, bad things will happen and there may be dry spells in your walk.   Ask any believer who has served the Lord for a while and they will tell you both those statements are true.

This scripture also doesn’t say, only when you’re truly feeling it in your walk with God.  You can still do your devotion time and pray to God when your heart is feeling distant.  That is when you need it more than ever.  That is the essence of obedience and keeping up your end of the covenant between you, God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit who dwells in you.  Scattered all through the Old Testaments is God asking for obedience from the Israelites – not because he was a mean God but because he was a gracious God, protecting them and loving them.  And when they did, blessings galore, battles won because they were His people.  Everything they did and everywhere they went was blessed by God because they did it all in His name, because they were keeping His covenant.

This scripture, Psalm 25:10, is a burst of light for any believer making a decision!  It’s so simple.  Allow God to be Lord of your life and he will lead your paths with lovingkindness and truth.  Truth, that is so important.  How many times have we believed the lies of the enemy and it has set us back, set us up for failure; however, by putting Christ first and simply focusing on Him, even in the tough and dry times, it becomes harder for the enemy to plant lies into our mind, making it easier to follow the path God has set for us.  When we follow Christ, we know His voice, and the truth is in us.

“Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path” – Psalm 119:25

The other word, lovingkindness, now, that cannot be overstated enough.  This tells us that when we do take our eyes off Christ, deliberately sin, or get distracted – the LORD’s lovingkindness is always there to bring us back to our own path.  Naturally, this takes repentance but God, in his never-failing love and kindness will bring us back to him.  Believe me on this, I know from personal experience.

So, next time someone asks a question that feels overwhelming or you’ve heard it too many times and you are exhausted, simply tell them about Psalm 25:10, and how you are confident in your love for God and his love for you; and how knowing these 2 facts, you know that wherever life takes you, it will be with God in control on a path with lovingkindness and truth.  I mean, really, who doesn’t need that reminder every now and again for themselves?