My Personal God: My Lamp
by David Chadwick
God is our praise, our delight, our God. He wants to become your personal God.
When faced with a tough decision, where do you turn? Where do you look for help? God wants you to look to him. In every decision he faced, King David knew to look to God before looking anywhere else. He called out to God as “my lamp” (2 Samuel 22:29).
Why does someone need a lamp? One obvious reason is for light. Did you know that during the time King David was alive, people would tie lamps to their feet at night? These lamps gave light to their dark paths so that they could see their next steps. That’s why David referred to God’s Word as a lamp to his feet and a light to his path (Psalm 119:105).
God wants to be a lamp to your feet. He wants to lead you in his way and will. And as this world becomes increasingly darker, we will need more and more of Jesus’s light in and through us.
However, we must remember that God’s lamp is not a high beam on the highway. He rarely shows us miles ahead. But he will faithfully show us the next step and then the next one and then the next one, asking us to trust him along the way. He promises to be the lamp to our feet, showing us step by step.
Do you know that your heavenly Daddy wants to be the light to your path? Pray to him, “Father, you are mine. Be my lamp. Light up my path and lead me in your perfect will for my life. Help me to trust you for each step that I take.”
Trust God today. And every day. For each step. Moment by moment. Day by day. Your personal God promises to light the way.