Psalm 17

"My steps have held to your path;
my feet have not slipped"
Psalm 17:5

My feet are not made like a Big Horn Sheep's. I cannot climb the mountains in the way that these animals do so effortlessly. When I climb the rocky paths my feet have a tendency to slip and slide on the loose rock and steep paths. While trying to get in the best place for a picture I have more than once come close to going where I did not want to go.
When I lift up these words of the psalmist it is with the hope that one day I can say it about the present state of my life. I know it will never be in relation to the past for I have gotten off the path a few to many times already in my life. The reality seems to be that determining which path God is leading one to be on makes a world of difference in how close one is to being able to walk upon it.
Knowing that I am not a Big Horn Sheep and that God did not intend me to takes its path allows me to be open to the path that God might set me upon for today and tomorrow. I think that path has a lot of similarities with the paths that others have followed over the centuries in following God, but the path is also going to be different in some ways. Now if I could only see clearly the path that God places in front of me for the coming days it would be so much easier.