Show me your ways, The Lord. Teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation. I wait for you all day long.
You used to be so sure. You had a plan. A timeline. A vision board with dates and benchmarks and the quiet confidence that comes from believing you know where you're going. And then life did the thing life does — it rearranged everything without asking — and now you're standing in a place the plan didn't account for, holding a map to somewhere you no longer recognize. And the hardest part isn't the uncertainty. It's the silence. You've been asking for a sign, a nudge, a whisper — anything — and the sky has been quiet. But the silence isn't abandonment. The silence is the teacher waiting for you to stop guessing and start listening. The path is still there. You just can't see it because you're still looking for the old one.
David prays this with his face in the dirt. Not metaphorically. He's lost, he knows it, and he's done pretending otherwise. "Show me. Teach me. Guide me." Three requests, all admitting the same thing: I don't know the way.
And that admission is the beginning of everything. Because as long as you're performing certainty — as long as you're faking the direction, manufacturing confidence, telling everyone "I've got a plan" while internally screaming — no guidance can reach you. Guidance requires openness. And openness requires the death of pretending.
"I wait for you all day long." That's the line that breaks me. All day long. Not for five minutes during a morning quiet time. All day. Which means David was walking through his entire day with the posture of someone who doesn't know where they're going — and is okay with it. Not okay in a shrugging, whatever-happens way. Okay in a trusting, I-don't-need-to-know-the-destination-to-take-the-next-step way. That's a different kind of lost. The kind that isn't failure — it's surrender. And surrender, in this case, is the only strategy that works.
Psalm 25:4-5
Lost
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