When my wife Pam and I got married fifty years ago, we rented a small one bedroom garden apartment. We had a noisy neighbor and decided that we didn't like apartment living. We wanted to live in a house. Two years later, we got a good deal on a lot and decided to build a house on it. It never occurred to us that nobody else in our group of friends lived in a house; they all lived in apartments, just like we did. We didn't know that we couldn't build a house...so we did! We lived in that house twelve years. Recently, I was thinking about those days and I considered today's passage from the Old Testament book of Isaiah. Let's listen to it:

Who among you fears the Lord and obeys his servant? Let those who walk in darkness and have no light trust the name of the Lord and depend upon their God. (Isa. 50:10)

When we were building that house, we ran into obstacles. We had to post a construction bond with the county government and it cost $30. We didn't have $30 so we asked Pam's dad for a loan. He wouldn't loan us the money because he thought it was a bad investment. Later, he told us that he was pretty sure we would go under and lose everything trying to building that house...and that was a reasonable assumption! Like I said, we didn't know what we were doing. But Isaiah 50:10 reminds us that when we fear and obey the Lord, we can trust Him when our path is dark. Have you ever been in a position that you didn't know what to do? Sure you have—all of us have. There are many times in life when we don't know what we're doing. And worse, sometimes we don't even know that we don't know what we're doing! However, even when we don't have enough knowledge to understand our current situation, God does! He watches over us in love and takes good care of us. I'm talking to somebody, today. You’re facing a situation and you just don't know what the next step should be. Let me encourage you to move forward, trusting God with the light that you have. Whether your plan succeeds or fails, Jesus knows just what to do. He will see you through...and that is very Good News!