Today I will be traveling for work to a city I don't commonly travel to and to and area I am unfamiliar with. As I spoke with my client on Friday trying to get directions, I knew that based on how he was telling me to get there that I would probably get lost. My own pride got in the way and there was no way in the world I was going to tell him that I had no idea where any of the stuff he was telling me was at. In our life, on any journey, we will run across these times. The question becomes: do you keep going hoping to find the place eventually or do you stop and ask directions?
The great thing about technology is that many people have a GPS (global positioning system) that they put in their car to help them find their way. Yesterday I obtained one to use for this trip for work today. How exciting it is that I can put in my destination and it will get me there. In our life journey we have a GPS. (Sorry for you non-religious but it's about to get "holy.") Our GPS is God (or whatever higher being you believe in.) Like a GPS we have someone (or something) telling us what our destination is and if we put trust in it, it will get us there. But like anything you have to update the connection, whether its updating the maps on the GPS or our relationship with God.
What I have to learn to do is trust in my GPS...my God positioning system. It's God's plan for my life and sometime he's going to detour me and sometimes the roads will be clear and fine. I am enjoying thinking about how this trip today is a great time for me to reconnect with God. Maybe I will keep my radio off (which I tend to do anytime I am in the car now...) and just listen to what God wants me to hear.
Where is your life headed and do you stop to ask for directions? Or do you have a "GPS" (God positioning system) in your life? It's a good way to start off the week..
When I started reading that you were going to become lost, I was thinking that I could have loaned you my GPS. I'm so glad that you now have your own, where even if you are lost, you still know where you are.
ReplyDeleteWith the God Positioning System, you can also become lost and still know where you are. We do tend to stray off the path now and then. That's where it is important to just stop and pray, "God, where am I, and where am I going?" Have you ever had that happen, and then all of a sudden, you just know what to do? When you look back, it doesn't seem that you were lost at all, that it was just a little roadblock, where you simply had to get out and move a small tree branch, and then you can once again continue on your journey.
I would like to make a comment for anyone who doesn't believe in God. My opinion, since I do have a brother who thinks that he is atheist, is that most people do believe in some sort of "higher power", or "Force" in the universe that is "in charge" of everything. It would have to be so, or there wouldn't be any order at all. "Nature" is one of those powers. My brother knows that we have spiritual guides, and as a Scientist, he has had help from "Above" with many of his projects.
And speaking of having “order”, that’s why we do need a “God Positioning System”, just as we need that Global Positioning System, to guide us through life. If you might not like to use that word, “God”, then call it the “Great” Positioning System.
Since beginning to write a talk I must give, I have had to pull out the GPS often. I too usually don't listen to the radio while driving but lately I have and it distracts my thought process. Turning it off helps. Speaking with God grounds me and gives me a nudge in the right direction.
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