Geoffrey R. Kirkland
Pastor, Christ Fellowship Bible Church
God’s guidance is His wise, decreed, good, and timely direction in orchestrating and directing His people and everything that exists. The guidance of God stems from His good wisdom, His perfect decrees, His infinite knowledge, and His all-sufficient Word. The Psalmist declared: “Lead me in your truth and teach me” (Psalm 25.5). What is so amazing about the guidance of God is that God happily and clearly directs His people through the unchanging Truth of His Word. In fact, God clearly led His people in the wilderness wanderings every step of the way (Deuteronomy 8.2).
God leads His people in wisdom through His counsels (Proverbs 4.11). His guidance is always best, upright and good. Today, the guidance of God comes through His revealed Word, the Scriptures, and those who “speak the word of God to you” (Hebrews 13.7). Through godly counselors there is victory and help (Proverbs 11.14; 15.22). Practically and preeminently for the believer, direction and guidance from God is clearly received through the testimonies of Scripture (Psalm 119.24).
So how does God guide a child of God nowadays? He guides through His Word (2 Timothy 3.16-17; 2 Peter 1.5). God does not speak or direct apart from His revealed and complete revelation nowadays. In times past, God spoke through prophets and visions (Hebrews 1.1) but now He has spoken preeminently in the Son (Hebrews 1.1-2) who is beautifully seen and portrayed in the Scriptures (John 5.39).
What encouragement springs from the truth of the guidance of God! He guides because He is alive and involved in the affairs of His people (Joshua 3.10). Additionally, God is true and His word is always timely and wise (Psalm 25.5). God sends out His light and truth and leads His own (Psalm 43.3). Even through afflictions, uncertainties, trials, and great struggles of life, God remains with His people He promises to His covenant-ones, “I am the LORD your God who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go” (Isaiah 48.17).
How do you find guidance from God? Where does it come from? Clear truths and Scriptures provide perfect guidance and truth to hear, believe, embrace, and obey. Also, there are principles that can be gleaned from Scriptures to provide helps to navigate life and make godly decisions (2 Timothy 2.22). Pray for God’s direction (Psalm 27.11) and study God’s counsels (Psalm 119.24), receive biblical counsel from wise saints full of the Word (Proverbs 24.6), and happily rest and believe that for His own sake He will lead and guide you (Psalm 31.3). Thank God for His guidance. Praise Him for His direction. Consider your God and His providential workings in your own life, every day, minute by minute. Thank Him and praise Him for His manifold wisdom (Romans 11.33-36)!
