Driving In The Dark

23 June 2012

Isaiah 42:16 I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth.
These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 50:10 . . Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord
and rely on his God.

Isaiah 52:12 . . for the Lord will go before you, the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Psalm 119:105 Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.

The day after our return from the ASEAN Age Group at Hue, Victoria joined her friends on the second last day of the Freshmen Orientation Mock Camp. She forgot to pack her towel and water bottle so after the night clinic, I drove with SY and Brian to the adventure camp in Sarimbun. Brian was at the wheel. SY's newly-installed GPS took us way past his old NS camp in Lim Chu Kang. We finally saw a sign that led us down a dirt track.

It was Brian's first experience of driving along an unlit road.

"How do we see where we're going?" he asked.

"Turn on the high beam," his dad said.

As we bumped along the unpaved lane, Brian trying to manoeuvre around the deeper potholes I prayed that SY's new secondhand car wouldn't be damaged! Isaiah 42:16 came to mind, as the high beam of the car turned the darkness into light before us.

I am thankful to God who goes before us on every journey in life.

I pray our family will always be guided by our spiritual GPS, God's Word, a lamp to our feet and a light for our path.