Look at the action verbs in this Scripture: Stop, Look, Ask, Walk, Travel, and Find. There is a progression here in making wise choices. First, we have to stop, pause long enough to hear the voice of the Lord and not the clamor of the world all around us. Look around—examine the choices before you. Ask—the Bible says that we don’t have because we don’t ask. Before you make a choice, ask what the way that God wants you to take is. Then, walk that path. God doesn’t promise that it will be easy or without some challenges along the way, but he does tell us to travel along that path and there our souls will be able to rest. Why? Because we are following the purpose, the plan, the path that God established for us. Unfortunately, too many of us turn the wrong way, saying that the road we want is different than the one God has set up for us to take. God will allow us to make our own choices, but then we will suffer the consequences of traveling the wrong way. Like a good GPS system, God will look at the road we are on, the one where we took the wrong turn, and He will recalculate a new path for us. It may take us longer to get to where He wants us to be and we may miss some blessings along the way, but God will not give up on us. His purpose and plan will still be fulfilled, often in spite of us because we didn’t carefully stop, look, ask walk, travel and find. God wants us to find that rest that He has promised, both here on earth and in eternity with Him.