I was so foolish and ignorant—
Psalms 73:22-24 (NLT)
I must have seemed like a senseless animal to you.
Yet I still belong to you;
you hold my right hand.
You guide me with your counsel,
leading me to a glorious destiny.
Who hasn’t felt foolish and ignorant in their walk with God? Who hasn’t gone down the wrong path, listened to the wrong teacher, or said the wrong thing to others? We have all done these things and sometimes we have unknowingly done them for years.
But God does not distance himself from us. He does not send us to our room and tell us to get our act together before he will talk with us. For we still belong to him; he will still “hold my right hand.” He stays connected to us and guides us with his counsel. He is the Father who is always there, accepts us with our weaknesses and focuses on putting us back on the right path.
Best of all he is leading us “to a glorious destiny.” After all our misses and failures he is committed to bringing us to his perfect community. He will make sure that his children are “successful” in the end. He is bringing us back to full communion with himself in the next age and will shower his gifts on us in his eternal celebration of his loved ones.
