Crookedness
Scripture reassures us that God goes before us and makes the crooked places straight, (Isaiah 45:2). No matter what each day brings, no matter what the future holds, we can be rest assured that God holds our future and that He has already gone before us and paved the way for us.
No matter what challenges each day brings, we can be sure according to the word of God that He is not only with us all the time and for us but also that He has already gone before us and made the crooked places straight which represent the obstacles in our lives.
The crooked places will look different for each one of us. However, it is good to know that no matter what obstacles come our way, God is able to help us overcome them because he has already gone before us. So keep walking. No matter what lies ahead of us, God is already there.
There’s nothing man in his own power can do to make the crooked man straight. If we could, we wouldn’t need Jesus and His salvation.
Only Jesus can take the crooked and make it straight.
The “crooked” referred to here, is the character and nature of man. It would signify all manners of deceit, corruption, guile, hypocrisy, and untruthfulness. Any person who is bent low over a power of sin and who is a crook in every sense of the word, who is a liar, a cheat, a thief, an adulterer, a fornicator, a murderer, and ungodly, is the crook that God can make straight.
Jesus makes the crooked straight through regeneration.
Through His shed blood, He cleanses them and gives them a new heart (Is.1:18; Ez.36:26). When the crook (and we were all crooks at one time) repents of his sins and puts his faith in Jesus and His finished work of redemption at Calvary, he’s saved and forgiven of all his sins and crookedness, and becomes a new creature in Christ (2 Cor.5:17) and begins walking the straight and narrow way, where there’s no room for crookedness.
Once someone is saved, they make straight paths for their feet (Heb.12:13) and follow the “highway of the upright (straight)” which is “to depart from evil (crookedness)” (Pr.16:17).
As a child of God, we are in the hands of God’s providence and protection. God intervenes on our behalf. As we look back on our lives we can see where God has made the crooked places straight and the rough places smooth.
Our very steps are ordered by the Lord. With the Lord’s help our destination (the one He has ordered for us) can be reached. As a Christian every one of our steps is planned out by God.
Psalm 37:23 “The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, And He delights in his way.”
Jesus was condemned as a crook and bent crooked in the manner He was hung on the cross, and from the pain that gripped His body, in order that we might be made straight through Him.
PRAYER :
“Heavenly Father, thank You for preparing a path for me. I know You are working behind the scenes to make the crooked places straight and the rough places smooth. Give me Your strength to keep moving forward on the good path that you have for me in Jesus’ name. Amen.”
Sol.Fiona