Day 2: Following God

Insights on listening to God when He directs your path.

It is written that "The steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord" Pslam 37:23. This day I walked with the Lord, and trusted in what He said for me to do. As I did this I noticed the Lord's Hand in the works of my life as He guided me to do His will. At times it seemed a bit scary and even bold but as events began to unfold His purpose became evident. For example, I was discussing this bill that needed to be paid with my girl and I was going to meet her at the billing place around two o'clock. It was around 1:20 when I was ready to go and I noticed one of my friends was playing pool. This guy was exceptionally good and I wanted to play him so I went down there to play him. As I was playing him the Lord told me to leave. I'm thinking to myself in middle of a pool game I can't do that I don't like leaving things unfinished. So I leave with just as He said and I began to walk to my car, then the Lord said to me walk faster, so I started to walk faster until I reached the car. I got in the car and I began heading towards my destination, not even two minutes later this program comes on with Alistair Begg and in this program they began discussing the matter of baptism. Now to give you a brief background on this matter I've been a growing Christian for about two years now and the Lord's been doing many things in my life, which between me and Him I am most grateful. But it came earlier on this year when I ran across a man who I had multiple Bible studies with that approached me with a different theology. But before I get into what he said, I would like to discuss that in the beginning I always had this feeling about him like something was off, something in my spirit just didn't feel right with him. I remember discussing it with one of his friends about it I said "I don't know what it is but I feel like he is not telling me something." His friend assured me that there was nothing of the sort and that everything was fine and all his intentions are sincere. But on one fateful Bible Study, this man dropped the bomb on me, he told me that you are not really saved if you are not (water) baptised. As soon as he said that my spirit disagreed with him flashing the red flag on his assumption. I remember him saying at the end of our Bible Study "... here I'm gonna let you chew on that for a couple of days." After that I was sent on a tailspin, I began to question myself was I really saved? Because salvation is nothing I want to play with in my walk with Christ. So I began to do some research on the matter and it turns out to be a real hot topic of debate on the matter of baptism. Fast foward  a little bit in the future and I came to the conclusion that I am saved regardless of the water baptism and that the water baptism signifies the identification with Christ and with His followers. Well earlier this week Alistair Begg was discussing the issues of communion and the meaning behind it and I was listening to it I was thinking to myself if I was going to be able to catch it when he began preaching on baptism. In the shower earlier this morning I began to think about that same question again but I was thinking to myself I don't know when this guy comes on in the afternoon so how was I gonna be able to catch him when he discusses baptism? Ironically enough as I was driving to my girl his broacast came on and he began to discuss this very thing I prayed about earlier today. I was like Thank you God I understand why you told me to hurry up to the car. To some this may sound pretty irrelevant and somewhat conincidental but if I wrote about all that happened today and its significance to me that in itself could be a book. I chapter I turned to that summed up my day was Deuteronomy Chapter 6.