The Best GPS

He wouldn’t direct us to find the lost if where we live didn't require navigation. 

If you didn't need navigation to get where you are going, you wouldn't be lost.

We get tripped up on our own ideals as to what and how a day should go, the conversation should have ended, the people should have acted, the interview should have went, the doctor’s report should have been….we don’t understand, we don't see, we didn't think it would go that way, we didn't expect it…so we lose our way. We get distracted, we get exhausted, we get    off      track. 

God told us his ways are higher than ours, he told us we needed to follow him, and he directs us to find the lost. Why? Because where we live is hard, it is complicated, it is confusing….it requires navigation. 

The way is narrow. To blaze ahead requires intense consistent intimacy with the leader. God.  

This world is hard, but our GPS (God Provided Signs) always works and has overcome the world!

What if Jesus stopped looking to the leader? What if he got distracted? He could have. He lived our life. He had opportunity and temptation. By all accounts he was a handsome, young, skilled, charming, well spoken, intelligent young man….and he was Jesus. Um Hello. You don’t think there were plenty of offers from girls? You don’t think there were many men who wanted to exploit his abilities for their own profit and fame? Through all the betrayal he faced, You don't think desire for revenge and the heat of anger was a sweet temptation?  He had thirty three years to avoid the wrong turns that would lead miles down a road with no purpose and no possibility to reach the right destination. He didn’t take the right path simply because he kept walking…no, it took more. Jesus focused on the navigational tools and direction of God. He forged our path and paid our toll! Now, not only do we have GPS, but we have the advocate who constantly steps in to reroute when we miss turns! 

1 John 1 and 2