‘Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light for my path.’ Psalm 119:105
dI notice that in this verse God is providing a lamp for my feet, not a beam that lights up everything. With the lamp not everything is illuminated. With this light of God we will only be able to see a few steps ahead. This means because we can’t see far into the future, we have to trust Him. The future will be veiled but this also means we can’t see the troubles and worries ahead.
The old hymn by John Parker puts it so well
‘God holds the key to all unknown and I am glad.
If other hands should hold the key or if He trusted it to me,
I might be sad.
Then we are comforted with this thought ‘For, what I cannot, He can see and in His care I safe shall be.’ We are grateful that He kindly veils the future. Living under God’s grace day by day we will grow.