Are you Willing to Take the Next Step?

This is a thought that keeps coming back to me, time and time again.

There are times when it is easy to take the next step, but then there are times when it’s not so easy.

The times when it’s not so easy can be when I would like to know what the next 3 or 4 … or even 10 steps are going to be, but all I have in front of me is the next step.
The next step that leads to ?????

I may well have an idea, or direction of where the next step will take me, so I’m not necessarily talking about taking a blind step (although sometimes we might even have to do just that). But I’m mostly talking about taking the next step, even though we haven’t worked it all out.

Sometimes things can just go a certain way. Things can just pop up in front of you on your path that could lead you in a particular way, if you are open to following them.
I’m not talking about following the wrong path. There can be many wrong paths along our way that we know we should avoid, no matter how tempting they may be.
But I’m talking about the paths that we have an inkling that could be good or fun to travel down, if we are just willing to just take the next step?

Sometimes the choice can be as simple as, take the next step….. or go nowhere. Just stand still and remain exactly where you are.

Staying still can sometimes be the right choice, but other times it can just simply be me refusing to move, anywhere.

Now if it is in fact The Lord my God who is asking me to take the next step (and I know that it its Him who is doing the prompting), then will I be willing to follow His leading?
It can be easy to answer yes to that question when there is no next step in front of you. But can we say yes to Him with our actions?
By doing what He is asking us to do?

John 10:27-28
²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.

Matthew 21:28-31
The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ “What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’

²⁹ “‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.

³⁰ “Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go.

³¹ “Which of the two did what his father wanted?”

“The first,” they answered.