God will make a Way

Have you ever felt that there was no way forward—that you were at a dead-end and there was no way out? Perhaps you feel that way now. All last night the words to a song kept coming into my mind: “God will make a way”. When I got up this morning I looked up the next lines:

“God will make a way where there seems to be no way. He works in ways we cannot see. He will make a way for me.”

This song brought me back to a time in my life and ministry when any possible way forward seemed blocked. I remember listening to this song and letting the words strengthen me as I let the Holy Spirit minister to my tears and the discouragement and heaviness in my heart.

My experience is that God has always opened up a way as I have looked to Jesus and fixed the eyes of my heart on Him. Jesus said, “I am the way…” (See John 14:6.) I have found that the true way forward is always through Jesus. Other ways out turn out to be just escapism and false solutions. At times, Jesus, in His mercy, prevents the old false solutions from even appearing to work and I have come to the end of all hope in anything or anyone but Him. As I have waited, a door has opened. Jesus said, “I am the door…” (see John 10:9-11).

The song goes on to say: “He will be my guide, hold me closely to His side. With love and strength for each new day, He will make a way. He will make a way.”

God has not promised to make a way for our plans but for His plans realized in and through us. God brings us to impasses so that we can reach the end of our strength and ingenuity and experience His. The ancient Israelites experienced this when they followed God’s plan of escape from slavery in Egypt. They came to an impasse at a Sea which they could not cross with the Egyptian army bearing down on them to annihilate them or force them back into slavery. Their leader, Moses, in faith raised His staff as directed by God and the Sea parted. The people of God crossed over and then the waters returned drowning the enemies of God’s people, decisively eliminating what would have been an ongoing threat and closing the way for the Israelites to change their minds and go back.

I have experienced this myself—that when I wait for God to open the path and then walk in faith through the door He opens, God opens up whole new and expanding areas of fruitful service. God deals decisively with resistance to His will and prevents the enemy of our souls from further hindering God’s purposes.

This way of following Jesus is costly and blessed and produces fruit that lasts.

The Israelites experience at the Sea foreshadows a greater impasse and deliverance experienced by the people of God. When Jesus was executed, His followers experienced the greatest impasse of all. The only One who could deliver them had been killed. All hope was gone. Then the unimaginable happened. The One who died was bodily raised to a new and indestructible kind of Life. A door was opened to all who would believe in Him to a share in this new kind of Life now and forever. This Life involves a whole new pattern of living. As we reach each new impasse, large and small, in our lives we find that a door is opened through Jesus that, as we walk through it, proves to be a door of real hope and expanding Life.

In this Resurrection season of the Father’s Love, may you know and follow the One who is the Way forward and find renewed hope and purpose in Him.

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