She was a bus driver and janitor at our school many years ago and was well known for her antics. She loved us kids and we weren’t all that lovable. Her attendance at ballgames was 100%. This unique individual would show up at these events with an old jug with a cork stopper. Standing in front of the bleachers, she removed the stopper and the crowd would cheer loudly. Then she would put the stopper back on the bottle and everyone quieted. That crowd was moved by just the actions of a lady with an old jug and a wild sense of humor.
When we think back on other influences in our lives, what do we come up with? Could there possibly be a pied piper who led us down some lonely and dangerous trail? How many times were we easily manipulated?
Hopefully, now we’re led by a more realistic entity.
And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
Pull the top off of that and respond to Him. Give it some thought.
Gary