Wrong Direction

Wrong Direction

I remember one time I went to this hunting club with my buddy. He told me that morning how to get to the stand that I was go sit at that morning. The next morning I woke up and got dressed and off to the stands I went. I parked at the spot he told me to and then followed the tree line and then found the trail to the stand and then climbed up in the stand. As the sun started to come up over the trees in noticed this was a great place to sit. That morning I saw a lot of deer walking through the woods. As it got closer for me to get down I started to look around and thought there as to be a way faster to the road. I noticed that there was a trail behind me that looked like it would take me right up to the road that I was parked on. So I got down and off I went down this trail I had no idea where it would lead. I kept walking and walking I was thought the road has to be right up here. As I walked a little more I came to a fork in the trail and thought ok it has to be this direction.  As I walked down this trail the road was nowhere. I have been walking for about 45 min. Then all of a sudden I head this guy whistle at me from a tree. I turned and looked up and it was another hunter. I then realized I was on someone else’s property he said man it’s a good thing you had an orange hat on I thought you were a deer. This is how a lot of people are shot in the woods. I told him where I was trying to go and he said you can’t get there from here. You will have to go back the way you came and go back out the other way. So off I went and about hour and half I made it back. By this time people at the camp were out looking for me also.  What a crazy morning.

This brings me to Psalm 119:59 “I thought about my ways and turned my steps back to your decrees.” I know that I have thought my ways are the best and I know a faster way to get somewhere but to only find out I was wrong. So I think about where I am at this point in my life and how I have had to turn around and make the long walk back to get back to where I was at. I had to come to a place where I was so lost that the only way was to turn from my ways and follow the correct trail that I was told to go down. God shows us and tells us what paths to take if we are listening and staying in tune with him. Just think of time that I would save if I would have just listened and went back the correct way.  I will tell you from experience when you feel like following your ways stop and ask God if this is the direction you should go. I urge you not to do it your way, because I promise it’s a long walk back.