Discouragement can hide behind a lot of things. It can even hide behind a smile. Discouragement can walk into any house at any time. Discouragement can tell us that life is not worth living. It can lie and cause us to think things that we normally don' t think. Our mouth might be saying praise the Lord, but discouragement can hide right under that. We look and see people that do not seem to be living right, but that are blessed while we deal with struggles and storms in our own lives. It becomes not our test that baffles us, but the trying to understand how they can succeed. David warns us that the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. David spends a lot of time in our text talking about steps. The word steps implies process. It is going take a while. We cannot take shortcuts to the destination. We must go along the path that God has for us in order to reach the goal. A blessing given too soon is not a blessing. We need to learn patience with the process. Most of us do not like the process. We don't like waiting in line. We don't want God to order steps. We want Him to order blessing, healing, and opportunity. God has a pace for our lives. Too often our prayers are to short circuit the process or to speed it up. In God's economy, we cannot skip steps. If we do, we will have to go back and do it. God uses these steps to prepare us to receive His blessing. He is not preparing the blessing, He is preparing us to receive it. We must go through the process to get it all lined up. Even Jesus had steps. They tried to crown Him too soon, and He had to withdraw to maintain the process. What God is trying to teach us is that we do not have to be at our destination to praise Him. We have to praise Him on the steps. We have to praise Him for the process. The devil hates step praises. Our flesh fights praising on the steps. Like Paul, we must learn to be content in whatever step we find ourselves, because it is only a step.