Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
This is one of those metaphors that I love. And love to ponder.
Note that God's word here - and I'm going out on a limb (although maybe not too far) by saying that this means scripture - is the light to the path.
Not the path itself.
Now, there are lots of ways we could twist ourselves up with that. God's word isn't our path?
What?
Then what is? The light?
Well, what is the light for?
God's word helps us to find the path. It helps us to see more clearly the things before us - and even behind us - that otherwise we might not.
The things that are of God.
If the Word is the light, then what would it mean that God IS the path? The very being that is carrying us and holding us close.
God as the journey.
Scripture lights our way...acts as a lens to help us see it.
But is not the path itself.
If we make scripture itself the path...in other words, if we follow scripture as a guidebook, rather than a lens or lamp or light, then we probably aren't going to see the forest for the trees.
We make then, in a sense, scripture our God.
Scripture points us to God. It is not itself God.
Lord, light my path to you through scripture and love. Amen.
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