In A Fog

A heavy fog hangs in the early morning air as I write this.

It's the kind that we often see on September mornings in central Indiana, except maybe heavier than normal. You can almost see the droplets of precipitation that hover within it, and the air is thick with its presence.

Driving is difficult in fog like this. Every few feet is a new wall of obstruction, and only when you arrive at that wall are the next few feet unveiled.
And then the next.
And then the next.

Fog seems like such an obvious metaphor for faith in life.

Many times things seem foggy. Many times answers are so very far from clear. Many times the path is completely veiled and nothing is revealed in advance.

When we step out in faith sometimes we expect that more will be revealed to us than actually is, but it is like that foggy road with just a few feet exposed at a time. God doesn't promise to show us the whole road of our journey. He asks us to travel with Him...Him leading the way....us relying wholly on Him through His clear sight since our own vision is clouded not only by all of the distractions of life, but also by the sheer and simple fact that it is not to be known by us.

I hope you'll begin to look at fog in a whole new way: as a beautiful reminder of how God calls us to be completely dependent on Him, so much so that without Him we are unable to even order our steps for more than a few feet.

I love what Martin Luther King, Jr. says: "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

Just take the first step...travel those first few feet...go that first little distance...

That is what faith is...traveling on the road we can not see and trusting that God is guiding us every step of the way.

Question: How do you allow God to guide you on your daily path?