One summer, my family and I were hiking in the mountains of Colorado. The trail we were following was supposed to connect to another trail to get us to our destination. We walked and walked and walked through increasingly difficult terrain until we finally realized that our trail was not connecting the way we thought it was. We no longer had any hope of making it to our destination, so we turned around and made our way back down the mountain. We later discovered that the maps used to plan our hike were not accurate, and the trail we thought we were going to find no longer existed. Without someone who knows where you are going, it is difficult, if not impossible, to reach your destination. And without hope of reaching your destination, hiking on mountainous trails is not fun. That ill-fated hike is now the benchmark in our family for other hikes. We often ask, “Is this really the way or is this going tobe like our hike inColorado?” In Jeremiah’s day, the people did have an accurate map of how they should walk. God had given them very specific instructions to follow, but they refused to listen. Jeremiah warned the people of the destruction that was coming should they continue to follow the nations around them instead of following God, but the people didn’t listen. They were content to walk their own path. DECEMBER 2 I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps. JEREMIAH 10:23 “
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