The Straight Path

Background: my parents 
Foreground: my Rebecca and my niece, Tamara
1984

"Teach me you way, LORD; lead me in a straight path because of my oppressors." (Psalm 27:11)

I love this 1984 snapshot of my girl and her cousin following their grandparents along a straight path.

Throughout God's Word, the Lord urges His children to make straight, level paths for their feet and stay on them!

Proverbs 3:5-6 - "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight."

Proverbs 4:26-17 - "Watch the path of your feet and all your ways will be established. Do not turn to the right nor to the left; turn your foot from evil."

Hebrews 12:11-13 - "No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. Make level paths for your feet, so that the lame will not be disabled but rather healed."

The straight path is up-right living or the way of righteousness according to God's truth and commands. 

Got troubles, beloved? Check your path. 

(Yes, troubles will come to the straight path, too, but sometimes we've stepped off the straight and narrow.)

"Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." (Jeremiah 6:16)