I want to focus again on the idea of seeking God. For about five months, there were only been a handful of days when I didn’t take my dogs out for a walk, even when it was really cold. At first, as I walked, there was no evidence that anyone had been walking along that swath that Ron cut for me. But slowly, a path developed. I laugh at the strong consistency of my walking habits. I chose to walk in the same spot, out of a swath that is 20 feet wide, so consistently that you could see a path emerging.
That path is like Psalm 105:4 which says, “Seek His face always.” It literally means to “beat a path to.” The path doesn’t emerge after walking through the grass once or twice or even twenty times. The path around our upper field emerged after five months, and in some stretches it was still not evident. God wants us to seek His face so often that it’s like beating that path to Him. It’s continually.
That’s why I believe all of these coincidences and incredible instances in my life were not really coincidences, but events in which God shows me how very much He cares for me. He’s interested in my complete investment in the covenant: I will be to them a God and they will be to me a people.