Following Unseen Footprints

Colorado Springs, Colorado

It's easy to follow footprints in the snow. I don't know who the person was that walked through the parking lot at Holy Cross, but I can tell you the direction he or she was walking. I could even follow these footprints out of the parking lot until they joined other footprints on the sidewalk.

These footprints disappeared a few hours after I snapped this shot, never to reappear. If I had tried to follow these footprints later in the day I would have been left wondering where they were.

"Your road went through the sea. Your path went through raging water, but your footprints could not be seen." Psalm 77:19 God's Word to the Nations

Asaph, the writer of this psalm, was in utter desperation.  Earlier in the psalm he wrote, "I am so troubled that I cannot speak." (Psalm 77:4b ESV) Does that sound familiar? Have you experienced moments so painful in your life that you could not speak?

In answer to his anxiety, Asaph, recalls the past, not his past, but nation of Israel's past. He recalls a time when the footprints of God led through the waters of the Red Sea and the Jordan River. Like the footprints in this picture that eventually disappeared, God's footprints couldn't be seen, but they could be trusted.

You may not see God's footprints today, yet he guides you into the great unknown of life. We, like the psalmist, recall God's faithfulness in the past, not our past, but Jesus' past. His cross is evidence that God can be trusted even when we can't see his footprints.

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