God's Ways....

Psalm 32:8 NIV:
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.

God is interested in the growth and development of his children. He wants us to move from one level of maturity to the other as we move closer to the end of our earthly journey. As we all know, for every journey, there's a start point, there are stops and signs all along the way, helping and guiding us to the destination already agreed. These signs and stops are his instructions highlighted in today's passage.
God has promised to instruct us. Watch the choice of words. God doesn't demand obedience or command respect. It is our duty and responsibility to give God all these but God will never force these things down our throats. Our race must be one we enter and submit to willingly. He's a mighty God, capable of mighty things, as seen in the might and complexities of His creation, yet he gives ordinary, fickle man the power to decide if he will heed instruction. That passes huge responsibilities to us.
Watch the words above again. It says: I will teach you IN the way you should go. There is a way to go and instructions to go with the way. God never leaves us with clear directions as to what he wants from us. His voice is always speaking: through the Word, his creation, circumstances around us, all point to thee fact that God never leaves us without instruction. Are we too busy to pause and hear his instructions?
He also says he will counsel us with his loving eyes upon us. God's counsel is done with his love as the motivation. Nothing he does is in vain or out of hatred for us, but he works from the end of his purpose to the point where we are now. He seeks to take us from where we are to where he has already pre-destined us to end up. The big lesson therefore is: no matter what it looks like now, God is at work. No matter how hard it looks now, God's plan for my life cannot fail. His purposes are eternal, therefore my life must be lived with eternity in view.
Let God have his way and let his purpose be my primary pursuit. His will is undeniable and is the best for my life. As I seek his will daily, I know that which he has already laid down for my life will be my experience. I rejoice, because his time of favour is here.