Your Dependable Guide

Scriptures: Psa.32:8-9; Luke 12:16-21

Greetings “Fan”-tastic Passengers,

Every human being needs a "Dependable Guide" in life, who can help them to charter its complex journey. In your experiences along life’s mysterious journey, a broken and fallen world, you constantly walk through challenging situations, such as, mountains, valleys and deserts. As a result of this brokenness in the world, your heart and mind, is limited, in their capacity to provide you with adequate guidance. Therefore, it is rather foolish for you to ignore God, who wants to instruct and teach you and to be, “Your Dependable Guide,” through Life (Psa.32:8-9).

Why is God your Guide Dependable?
 
God your Guide is dependable:

  • Because He is faithful and in His omniscience He knows you perfectly, as well as He knows the path of life on which you must trod
  • He is always available to guide you
  • He has chosen the best path for you
When God is your guide, it does not mean that your path in life will always be smooth. Instead, it simply means that, you can trust Him to protect provide and guide you through every decision in the affairs of your life.
 
Scripture in Luke 12:16-21illustrates in a parable, the folly of people, who choose to live their lives carnally and worldly, apart from trusting in God, their Dependable Guide, who wants to direct the affairs of their lives. They spend their entire lives trusting in their riches, while living only for this present world and not caring about their souls and the world which is to come. The parable gives us the life and death of a rich man, and leaves us to judge whether he was a happy man.
 
The workings of a Foolish Heart
 
Scripture in Luke 12:16-21 tells us that when the rich man saw an extraordinary crop upon his ground, instead of thanking God for it, or rejoicing in the opportunity which it would afford him, to be able to do more good in this life, he afflicts himself with this thought, “What shall I do”? However, it was not long after that thought, he proceeded to answer the question himself, by saying: “I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.” Notwithstanding, this action of the rich man concerning his possessions, was foolish because of the following reasons:
  • The Apostle James says our lives are but a “vapour.” This means that, we are here today and are not promised tomorrow because our lives can vanish away in a moment like vapour, as soon as the sun comes up.  Therefore, it was foolish for him not to say: “…If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that” (Jas.4:13-15)
  • It was foolish for him to call the fruits of the ground his fruits and his goods because whatever we have in this life, they are only lent to us of the Lord who owns it all. We are appointed by God, to be stewards of these earthly possessions (Psa.24:1; Hos.2:8-9)
  • It was foolish for him to hoard up what he had, and then to think it well bestowed, without even considering doing good by remembering the stranger, widow and the fatherless, for example
  • It was foolish for him to allow his mind to rise with his condition; when his ground brought forth more plentifully than usual, to talk of bigger barns, as if the next year, would bring forth the same result
  • It was foolish for him to think to ease his care by building new barns, for the building of them would only increase his care and concern of his earthly possessions (Eccl.5:10)
The Confusion of a Foolish Heart
 
Upon the credit of his security in his earthly possessions now being laid up in bigger barns, the foolish heart of the rich man says: “And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”(v.19). It is quite evident, that in the rich man’s heart, he was suffering from some type of confusion, when it comes to him being able to differentiate between what is earthly and heavenly and what is temporal and eternal:
 
The rich man suffered confusion in his heart, in not being able to distinguish his temporal body from his eternal soul. Therefore, if he had said, “Body, take thine ease, for thou hast goods laid up for many years,” it would have made proper sense. However, it was foolish for him to make such a statement to his soul. Why?
 
The three following passages from the Bible clearly establish the fact that man is a triune being composed of spirit, soul, and body:
 
  • And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul (Gen.2:7)
  • I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Thess.5:23
  • For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow (body), and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart (Heb.4:12)
  • In addition, the body is temporal and has need to be sustained by means of earthly food and goods, for example. The human soul, on the other hand, is considered as an immortal spirit, separable from the body, which is in no way nor means interested in, neither can be sustained, by a barn full of corn or a bag full of gold. In essence, it is the LORD who sustains and restores the soul (Psa.23:3)
  • This is why it is important that, by utilizing some his wealth, in doing good to others, he would have been guaranteed no loss, as well as he would be applying Jesus' antidote to this type of situation, as he would be, laying up, “…treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Matt.6:19)
 
God’s Sentence upon the Foolish Rich Man
 
While the rich man was busy forecasting his greatness upon the earth and then lulled himself, as it were, asleep with a pleasing dream of many years of enjoyment of his present improvements, the Scripture in Luke 12:20 says: “But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?”
 
  • There is a judgment to come, in which every man will be sentenced to a state of everlasting happiness, or misery, in the world of recompense or retribution, according to what he/she did in this world (Matt.25:31-36; Acts.17:31)
  • Furthermore, on "this night," when God requires your soul and you must die and then stand before Him in judgement, how will the storing up of all your earthly possessions into your big barns and you not choosing God to be your guide in the affairs of your life, help you in determining the everlasting happiness of your soul?
  • While on earth, we are but stewards, over all that God allows to be in our possession in this life. Therefore, faithfulness is required of a steward, which will determine one’s reward in the heavenly kingdom (Matt.25:34)

Scripture in Ecclesiastes 2:18-19 tells us how Solomon reflected on the frustrations which are associated with his earthly work and came to the conclusion that:

  • When death comes to an individual, it takes, as it were, the labour’s profit from its producer
  • In addition, the situation is made more perplexing, just by not knowing whether in the future, all of one’s labour and earthly possession, will be dissipated by a fool or be given to an heir who will not appreciate it

Finally, the Scriptures are very clear, in letting all humanity know that: “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God” (Psa.9:17). What good then will it be to one’s soul, for choosing to live life according to their foolish and selfish ways and not choosing the Lord to be their "Dependable Guide?"

It is an unspeakable folly of any human being to mind and pursue the wealth of this world, more than the wealth of the world which is to come. For one to earnestly seek after that which is merely for the body and for time, more than that which is for the soul and eternity, is truly foolish in the eyes of God. Therefore, God will judge those who choose to live their lives aside from trusting Him, their “Dependable Guide” to lead them strategically through the winding paths of life. God says of the rich man and anyone else who choose only to lay up treasure on earth for themselves and not taking the time to become rich in faith and other graces towards God, “Thou fool” (1 Tim.6:18; James 2:5; Rev.2:9). Consequently, there are many who are rich in the abundance of this world, yet; they are wholly impoverished of the things which will enrich their souls and make them rich towards God and for eternity.
 
Friends, I encourage you to accept the Lord Jesus Christ, in your heart, as your Saviour today and then trust Him fully to be “Your Dependable Guide” through life. He promises to instruct and teach you, in His ways, as you travel on the meandering paths of your life.
 
Stay strong! Stay encouraged!
 
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