Straight Path For Your Feet

Hebrews 12:12–13 (NKJV): “Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.”

I remember taking a journey to a rural village. Google Maps said it was 45 minutes. I did all my calculations, gave it a generous one hour. But do you know how long it took? Six full hours.

Excellent car with great performance,  accurate GPS, but the problem was not the car nor the GPS. The problem was the path. The road was twisted, rough, and unkind. Every turn drained us. Every pothole slowed us. Every bump stole our time. And although the SUV was strong and reliable, the road made it feel like it was falling apart. The car wasn't the issue. The path was.

I’ve seen women miscarry on such roads not because they were careless, but because the driver ignored the crookedness of the road. The path was too rough. The shaking was too much. The pressure was unbearable and the precious thing they carried was lost. Likewise, I’ve seen people lose divine assignments. Not because they lacked passion, but because they journeyed  on the wrong path.

Dearly beloved, may I submit to you by the Spirit of God that some things may indeed be lame, yet they are still very usable if only they were on the right path. But when you place what is lame on a crooked path, it leads to dislocation which brings more pain and causes deeper damage.

I know husbands with all kinds of lame excuses, but worse still, they are set on the wrong path, a path that leads only to breakdown. I know women with lame character, yet walking boldly on roads that are clearly headed for destruction. I know gifted Christians, burning with passion and overflowing with talent, yet relying on worldly principles to produce and sustain what was born of the Spirit. And what happens? Dislocation, and ultimately, destruction. A divine assignment laid upon a carnal foundation will always end in collapse.

There are marriages, ministries, businesses, and callings that are limping—not because they are unworthy, but because they are misaligned. Instead of fixing the path, people continue to patch the symptoms. Instead of correcting direction, they try to decorate dysfunction. They mount fragile spiritual journeys on platforms built by the world. They quote motivational speakers to sustain visions birthed in prayer. They run spiritual mandates using secular tools. And when things crumble, they call it warfare. But often, it is simply misalignment.

We must cry out from our hearts: Lord, straighten my path. Do not let my fragile calling rest on a worldly foundation.  Do not allow my ministry to ride on crooked counsel.Deliver me from the mixture of holy burdens with unrighteous roads.

There is a path that is sure. A path that is holy. A path that is safe, even when it is narrow. It is not flashy. It is not popular. But it is preserved. It is called the Highway of Holiness.

Isaiah 35:8 (KJV):“And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.”

This is a deep mystery. The Highway of Holiness is so aligned with the will of God that even if a fool steps on it, he cannot miss his way. That is how accurate holiness is. Holiness is not just about staying away from sin. It is about walking in divine order. Holiness is not just morality. It is divine direction.

Bring a foolish man into the path of holiness, and things begin to shift. He may not be wise, but he cannot go wrong. Holiness disciplines. Holiness corrects. Holiness redirects. Holiness is the compass of destiny. I call it Spiritual Real Intelligence. Not artificial. Not learned from men. But divine intelligence downloaded from God Himself.

No one walks in the