I don't believe I'm up to that. I'll just stay where I am for a while and wait for another opportunity. But now as I look back on that experience from this vantage point, I would not trade it for anything. It did more to strengthen my faith in God's sovereign control of all things than any other episode in my life. Yet I can say with absolute certainty that I am glad I did not know where the road was leading when I took that step to Alabama.
Some steps are giant strides.
One decision can commit us to a certain course for years to come, possibly for a lifetime. But however big it may be, it is still one single step. And it will be followed by many other single steps as we walk with the divine Shepherd day by day. If we run ahead of the light to see what lies beyond the next step, we shall find ourselves in the dark again. They followed God's guiding cloud wherever it went.