Ecclesiastes 1:15 - What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be numbered.
God is all powerful. It is only by His hand that all things exist and do what they are intended to do. Only God can make paths straight. It is through Him we walk straight, in align with what we know He requires. His ways are right and true and just. Through Him we see things more clearly.
I looked up scriptures regarding straight paths/ways because I know there are several references. It boils down to knowing the Lord, trusting in Him above all else and FOLLOWING Him. He knows the way we should go because only He IS the way, truth and life. It takes a leap of faith to get to that place of trusting Him over all other “avenues.”
I’ll let the Word of God speak for itself!! Remember God’s way/path is good and it is straight providing we don’t look or turn to the left or the right. (Proverbs 4:25-26)
Lead me, O Lord, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make Your way straight before my face.
Psalm 5:8
They [anyone who chooses God] shall come with weeping, and with supplications I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble…
Jeremiah 31:9a
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and
He shall DIRECT your paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6
The way of the just is uprightness; O Most Upright, You weigh [direct] the path of the just.
Isaiah 26:7
You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Psalm 16:11
I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do for them, and not forsake them.
Isaiah 42:16
Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be ESTABLISHED [by God].
Proverbs 4:26
Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”
John 8:12
Another thought. It’s difficult to see in the dark. The Bible tells us we are all in darkness before we know Jesus. Our ways are crooked. When we come to Christ the light has shown in our lives…and paths become straight (and narrower).
It’s hard to separate the idea of darkness and crooked paths. We stumble through life without Christ. Then He suggests the path to Christ is narrow (strait). And we know what the straight and narrow means. I find the word strait an interesting word for the verse below! And narrow here means to crowd (literally or figuratively), afflict, throng, or trouble.
Matthew 7:13-14 - Enter ye in at the strait [narrow] gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
