“Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path.â€
Psalm 119:105
Amy Carmichael gave me a good word to live out today as I head into a new call.
“If the next step is clear, then the one thing to do is to take it. Don’t pledge your Lord or yourself about the steps beyond. You don’t see them yet.
Once when I was climbing at night in the forest before there was a made path, I learned
what the word meant,
Psalm 119:105: ‘Thy word is a lantern to my path’.
I had a lantern and had to hold it very low or I should certainly have slipped on those rough rocks.
We don’t walk spiritually by electric light but by a hand lantern.
And a lantern only shows the next step—not several ahead.†((Amy Carmichael, Candles in the Dark, CLC Publications, 1981, p. 43))
“The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it,
for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.â€
Revelation 21:23