Our GPS

 The last 2 weeks i have been at my sister’s and I have had to use a GPS every day to get where i was going. 

Yesterday I went out without the gps and I made all the correct turns until the last one, I turned left instead of right.  I went about 5 miles out of my way when I Knew, knew, I was going the wrong way. Before that I guessed I was going the wrong way, thought I was going the wrong way but wasnt sure until I got to an area I had never seen before.

Of course that got me thinking about a few different things.

1. Without the gps I went down the right road, but the wrong way.

2. I turned the gps off because I was good enough to get where I was going without any guidance.

3. I had the right resource at hand but failed to use it.

Psa 119:105  NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. 

The Word of God is our GPS through this life, how often do we err or stray from the path when we fail to open it? How often do we feel that we can go out into our day and we will be ok if we do not read it today.

2Ti 2:15  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

How often do we leave our Bible shut, our hearts closed to the Spirit as we head out into the day, ready to take on the world, yet not ready because we failed to ready ourselves for the day.

How often do we just not use the resources we have, given to us by God: The Spirit, The Bible, the Church, and the fellowship of other believers?

A GPS is there to tell you which way to go in an area you have never been in before. We use it so that we might navigate through the streets of this world, even if we do not know where we are going, we turn when it tells us to, it tells us the speed limit of the area we are in, it shows us where we are as we go, how long till our next turn, how long until the trip is over.

How did we gain so much confidence in the GPS? How did it gain so much authority and influence in our lives? Because we used it and it never led us astray.

Yet we have the very Word of God, the Word that can give life, directions, and advice. It is never wrong, never inadequate and never recalculating.

Have you ever truly wondered why we can give so much credence to the GPS, something that was just invented in the last decade or so but the Word of God that has been around for thousands of years we fail to give the time of day to?

It can tell us how to live, get your finances in order, It gives wisdom, It makes you a better person, It points the way to eternal Salvation, It makes you aware of God, His ways, His Thoughts.

We have the greatest book ever and we do not use it.

We took it out of schools and we wonder how our children are going so wrong.

We took it out of government and we wonder how they got so corrupt.

We haven taken our GPS out of our lives and we have gone astray, we have turned down the wrong roads, we have missed our turns, and we have not found a place to turn around because we know we are going the wrong way but we are not using our GPS to tell us the right way to go.

We can correct our course, we can turn around, but you must start using the GPS you have, that God gave you and me. How else do we know we are going the right way?