My average steps in 2019 were 8,276 steps a day. This year 2020 my averages steps are 6,789 steps a day. January was 6,959 steps a day. Over the last several days I took an average of 5,207 steps The verb in verse 23 "ordered" is very strong in the original Hebrew. It means to establish something so that it has a strong foundation. Proverbs 16:9 tells us that "in his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps." Same idea as our text. Most of us know that God "directs" our steps (Proverbs 3:6). But this verb is even stronger. God not only "directs" our steps, he also "determines" or "orders" or "ordains" our steps. This includes our going out and our coming in, our lying down and our getting up, our waking and our sleeping, our buying and our selling, our talking and our listening, and our walking and our driving. Because he is God, there are no accidents with him. Nothing ever happens to the child of God by luck, chance or fate. No circumstance—whether good or bad—can come to us apart from God's determined purpose for us. Three Questions to Develop Life-Long Vision1. What do I really want?2. What is the best possible outcome in every area?3. What is most worthy of my best effort? We do not pretend that our trials never happened or that Christians never suffer. We suffer just like everyone else on this sin-cursed planet. Nor is it good when we fall into sin. Just ask any Christian who fell into serious moral sin how "good" it was. Sin only delights "for a season." All Satan's apples have worms. But there is an important truth in our passage that we need to understand: God is at work in our trials and in our falls in a way we never dreamed, never knew.
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Coming from Arab, Alabama, and growing up in Tampa, Fla. I moved with my family to Georgia in 1969. I was saved by God’s marvelous Grace in September 1972 at Blue Springs Baptist Church located down the road from North Cobb High School in Acworth, Ga. Called to preach at 16...