A cry from many mature Christians, who are familiar with the Bible and accustomed to the Christian life, is often the cry for guidance. Yet look at how God guided some of the most important faith-heroes of the past.

Moses, reeling from the experience of the burning bush, asked how he could know that it was God who was speaking to him and telling him of a great journey. God gave him a version of what my mother used to tell me on long trips, “We'll be there when we get there” — and God's rendition of this was to assure Moses he would know when he got back to the mountain with all the people. (Of course by then it would be memory, not guidance.)

Similarly, God told Abraham in Genesis 12 to go “to the land which I will show you.”

Today, I ponder the weight of direction that must outstrip knowledge; provision that must precede need.

Is that the way it works for other seasoned Christians, I wonder?