GOD WILL GUIDE YOU PRECISELY

However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, HE WILL GUIDE you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come – John 16:13

Our Father-God has promised to correct, direct, and instruct us. He will also GUIDE us into all truth. Recollect Psalm 32:8, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go: I WILL GUIDE you with My eye.” This means: “I will counsel you, my eye shall be upon you.” He who sees all things with crystal clear sight and discerns the way we ought to go, will guide us precisely, with His eye fixed upon us. He will give us revelation in His Word, and secret intimations of His Will.

Scriptures abound with diverse examples of how God guides His people. For example, Jehovah guided Moses in a dramatic way by speaking through a burning bush that was not consumed. In much of the Old Testament, God guided individuals, groups of people, and nations through the ministry of Prophets. Sometimes God’s guidance is ironic, as when He guided Balaam through his donkey or Jonah through a whale (Numbers 22; Jonah 1-2).

In the New Testament, divine guidance comes in a variety of way, but principally through the agencies of God’s Word and His Spirit – but the two are never at variance. God may also use the messages of His Prophets and others of His servants to confirm the fundamental guidance by the Word and Spirit. God guides by the Word through the correct interpretation of and insight into scriptures, in private devotion, Bible Study, teaching, or preaching. As for spiritual guidance, consistently, Jesus was “led by the Spirit” (Lk.4:1). Throughout the Book of Acts, the Holy Spirit guided the disciples by speaking to them, leading them, giving them visions, and endowing them with revelation gifts (Acts 8:29; 10:9-16, 44-45).

Romans 8:14 says, “For as many as are LED by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.” Paul also counsels: “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit” (Gal.5:25). That is, let us be “guided by the Spirit.” One thing is clear: the Spirit of God will never guide us into any act or behaviour that is contrary to biblical truth – the Word. Let us key into this eternal Promise of God: “They shall neither hunger nor thirst, neither heat nor sun shall strike them; for He who has mercy on them WILL LEAD them, even by the springs of water HE WILL GUIDE them” (Isa.49:10). God will guide you with precision. The Question is: Will you submit to His guidance?