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“God is my strong fortress, and He maketh my way perfectly smooth” (2 Samuel 22:33 JND).
Yesterday was a nice day outside, so we invited some Christian friends and went out for a picnic lunch beside the Rideau canal, since it is only a few minutes from our home. The canal is still in use all summer, although it was built almost 200 years ago. At first it carried small steamships with commercial cargo, but today almost all the boats going through it are pleasure boats. It was relaxing to watch boats going through the locks, and thus avoiding the rapids and falls along the Rideau river. Some of those rapids and falls are impossible for a boat to go over: the boat would be badly damaged, and in some cases smashed to pieces. Yet the canal makes the way perfectly smooth.
I thought of how that canal is like the way that the Lord allows us to pass easily around serious difficulties in our lives. He knows where the rapids are, and how certain things would be impossible for us to go through. Then He provides a way for us, and as our verse tells us, He makes our way “perfectly smooth.”
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