Our local high school band worked hard to put on some great performances at our football games.
The band has a tuba player that you might never expect to be in a marching band. He's blind. As you think about that, it raises a lot of questions about how he could possibly participate in a marching band's maneuvers. The answer: the young woman who has dedicated herself to being his guide. She doesn't play an instrument. But anytime that band makes a move, she slips her arm in David's arm and directs him wherever he needs to go.
Some might have thought there as no way that a blind tuba player could ever march with the band. But that would not take into account the one who made it possible - one person who is always there to guide him.
If you're at one of those anxious, confusing times when the road ahead is just not clear, have I got a promise for you! It's recorded in Isaiah 42:16, our word for today from the Word of God. It's an anchor verse for me. Your Lord says: "I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them."
That's your promise to claim! You have nothing to fear from the unknown because you belong to the One who can see it all.
The "don't know" times are God's instrument to drive you deeper into Him, to surrender all self-reliance for a desperate dependency on Him. You may not know which way to go, but you don't have to stand there fearful, paralyzed or marching in circles. Your Lord, your Shepherd is placing His arm inside yours to lead you where you could never go without Him.
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