Why The Compass Rose?

I ask the question

Lord, is this the direction?

But I get no answer I hear.

So I try once again,

Should I go this way then?

But the answer is still not clear.

It makes me wonder

Does He care if I blunder?

Or is it me that just can't hear?

 

Yet  as I search His Word

I realize I’ve heard

The voice of my Compass Rose.

His guidance is strong

I can’t go wrong

In knowing just what He wants.

Hundreds of Scripture

Show the full picture

Of the direction He wants for my heart.

So wherever I am

and whatever my plan

I can be the me  I am meant to be.

Linda

 

Was it a mistake that I went to university for nursing instead of teaching? Should we have built a wheelchair accessible home or should we have been satisfied with renovating? There are so many decisions and choices. How would my life be different if I had made different choices?

I have come to a realization that I am asking the wrong question.

It is not so important what University I attended, or even what course I graduated from.

My concern is unwarranted. 

The true issue is not "Does my life look the way it should with the husband, children, place of residence career, and educational choices I have made for my kids." The true issue is "Am I the person I was created to be?"

Regardless of whether I married or not, had kids or not, became a nurse or not - I can be the individual He created me to be.

Although I can ask my Compass Rose all these other questions, and He indeed may direct me, I do not need to despair that my "wrong" choices or the "wrong" choices of others, have affected my  life irreparably. My Compass Rose is bigger than that. What freedom!

My goal in 2014 is to seek His hundreds of instructions thorughout His Word, and begin the process of applying them. How exciting to be able to have this Compass Rose engraved on my heart.

2 Thess 3:5

May the Lord direct your hearts into God's love and Christ's perseverance.
NIV