Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
“Only walk securely in what you have heard, because His Word will be a lamp to your feet and a light for your paths. Nothing is required except that you do what you do not know, perform what you do not understand, go where you do not know [the way], following the leading of the Word, and become foolish, dismissing your own thought.” ((Luther, Martin:Pelikan, Jaroslav Jan (Hrsg.) ; Oswald, Hilton C. (Hrsg.) ; Lehmann, Helmut T. (Hrsg.): Luther’s Works, Vol. 11 : First Lectures on the Psalms II: Psalms 76-126. Saint Louis : Concordia Publishing House, 1999, c1976 (Luther’s Works 11), S. 11:485))
Oh, how hard it is to receive this word in an age where knowledge and understanding is king. Just hear and follow, even when you do not know the the details of the historicity of the text? Just do the Word without understanding clearly why something is said? Just go forward without even checking mapquest, a map, or plugging an address into the GPS?
This is faith. To become foolish, not demanding knowledge or understanding, but simply subjecting our own thoughts to His. Letting His Word move our feet, even when our head protests.
Thanks be to You, God of all wisdom, that You have
given us Your Word, in which You teach us the true wisdom.
Guard us from the seductions of science falsely so called,
and keep us in the faith of Your Word, which enlightens the
soul unto eternal life. So draw us to Your Son, that we hear
His voice and follow Him. Amen. ((Martin Luther, Reading the Psalm with Luther, Concordia Publishing House, 2007))
