Walking by Faith

When I get the chance, I like to play/run a D&D game by myself. The current game follows Erevan Yealdrin, commonly called Evan, as he seeks to reclaim a set of holy relics that once belonged to an angel. One of those relics was placed in a treasure hoard guarded by a mummy in the center of a maze. Evan found his way through the maze and defeated the mummy fairly easily, but the mummy struck him with a curse of feeble-mindedness, making it almost impossible for Evan to find his way out of the maze with the relic. Fortunately, Evan wasn't alone. Evan has a spirit guide named Faith, and Faith was not struck by the curse of feeble-mindedness. So, as the game stands now, Faith is doing her best to find them both a safe way out of the maze while Evan follows behind her. In essence, Evan is walking by faith.

I recently blogged about what a blessing it is that we can have the Spirit's guidance in all things, but that guidance will only help us if we trust the Spirit enough to follow Him. But the thing is, it should be fairly easy to trust the Spirit's guidance rather than our own thoughts. We're all a little feeble-minded, and we each only have our own limited perspective. In contrast, the Spirit gets His wisdom and intelligence directly from our all-knowing God. The Spirit knows what He's doing, and He knows what we should do, too. We often don't completely know what we're doing, so we're almost always better off following Him.

It's sometimes tempting to try to find our own answers for things or to try to make our own way in the world, but most often, we're better off trusting, following, and even relying on our spiritual guide, the Holy Ghost. If we put our faith in Him, He can tell us where we need to go and what we need to do. We don't need to know all the answers. We just need to trust the answers that come from God.

Relying on our own limited knowledge and wisdom will only get us so far. We're all much better off walking by faith.