Anyone who knows me knows that I have absolutely no sense of direction what-so-ever! I knew I had reached a new low when I had agreed to take a friend's nine year old son to school and had to resort to asking him (the nine year old, not the friend) for directions to the school. Yes, it's THAT bad!
Two Christmases ago my wonderful husband bought me a nifty GPS system in an attempt to help with this dilemma. I use my GPS absolutely everywhere I go, regardless if it's across the state or across the street.
One day my friend and I were picking my daughter up from my mother in law's house about 45 minutes away from my hometown. I had been to her house countless times, however I still relied on my GPS to get us home. As we got into the car I pushed the touch screen icon labeled "Go Home" and followed the directions. All went well until we got about a mile from my mother in law's house and the GPS lady directed me to "turn right ahead" well when I got to the place where the on screen map showed a right turn to be in order, there was no road for which to turn. Can you guess what happened next? I was completely lost. I had no idea what to do or where to go. Thankfully my friend filled in for the GPS lady when I turned her off after about the third time she advised me to "make a legal U-turn". My friend directed me until I got to familiar territory (which was about the time I got onto the road I live on).
She and my friends have had a great time telling and re-telling that story, but that got me to thinking..... We blindly follow mini computers and printed maps to get to where we want to go in this earthly trip. We make sure we turn when we are supposed to turn and stay strait when we are supposed to stay strait. But do we do the same with the map that our Heavenly Father gave us so we could reach our spiritual destination? God gave us His Word so that we would know what to do, where to go, how to speak, and how to act in order that we may be in His perfect will.
The word follow and all of it's derivatives appears in the King James Version of the Bible a total of 177 times. Do you think God is trying to tell us something? He has given us the directions, He has drawn us the map. We simply have to follow it. God has given us a spiritual GPS system complete with a "recalculating" feature, it's called the Holy Spirit. When we get out of God's will His spirit is there to gently guide us back onto the path that He has set before us.
Are you following the directions given by our Heavenly Father? Are you turning when He tells you to turn and staying strait when He tells you to stay strait? He has given you all the directions you will ever need, and I can promise you that when he tells you to turn on a road it WILL be there!
Be blessed friends!
