When you go your steps will not be straitened, and when you run, you will not stumble.
Even at face value this verse is a great promise and something we could quote every day. If we begin to break it all down and use some other definitions of the words, it can actually bring us to a different, though relevant meaning.
Lets start at the end and work our way back.
Stumble: to lose one’s balance
Run: we always think of moving faster than a walk. What about a couple of others though ; to flow like water, to be in charge or manage like a business, or even to be a candidate in an election.
Please notice the word straitened. Notice the spelling, it is not straightened; to put in order or move in a straight line. THIS word means to be characterized by poverty. Poverty is one of your characteristics, one of your traits, one of the things that make you, you.
One last word before we put it all together. Step: when I first read this verse I used the word step as if I was putting one foot in front of the other, thinking it would match up with the word run later in the verse. But remembering some other meanings for it ; steps going up into a home or like a ladder, a musical note, or stages in a process to achieve something.
So let’s put this verse together another way and see what happens.
“When you go down the paths I have led you to, the stages of your process will not be put into financial difficulties and when you take charge you will not lose your balance.”
This thing God has been bringing you thru is about to be at the end. You are about to take charge and those financial things that have been bugging you are about to be gone forever as long as you keep Him first.
Love it!!!