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JULY 3
MAKE STRAIGHT THE PATHS
“Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and
the feeble knees; and make straight the paths for
your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of
the way; but let it rather be healed.” (Heb.
12:12-13)
Truth is many-splendored, as the Spirit applies it
in so many ways to our heart. Thus, consider a
personal emphasis first, we are to make straight
paths for our own feet, then when others would
follow us, they will not be turned out of the way.
Rather than going about to try and straighten out
everybody else’s path, we need to give diligence to
our own to make sure it is upright. Paul was able to
say, “be ye followers of me, even as I also am of
Christ.” (1 Cor. 11:1).
“Whose faith follow, considering the end of their
conversation, (or, considering the final results of
their manner of behaviour).” (Heb. 13:7).
The circuitous route of some folk is hard to follow,
they dash off after this man, and that, wandering
here and there. We need to make a very straight path
for our feet, not encumbered with devious by-paths
which momentarily cater to the flesh, but “this one
thing I do, forgetting those things which are
behind, and reaching forth unto those things which
are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of
the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” (Phil.
3:13-14).
“And thou shalt be called, The repairer of the
breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.” (Isa.
58:12). So clear the path, so very straight the way,
that the lame, the halt, the blind shall be able to
walk therein. Dare we become “a way IN THE WAY” so
that men, beholding the uprightness of our lives,
our state of being in Christ, will be able to follow
us and find that we are leading them into Christ?
This is the challenge set before us in our daily
overcoming! We have helped make paths to some
church, to build congregations around a doctrine. We
have made paths to some man, to exalt his ministry.
But now we would make straight paths to Christ, for
He is the fullness of life and victory, to all men
we would say, “Behold Him!”
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