GPS for Life

Several weeks ago I helped my brother in law set up his new GPS (Global Positioning System) so they could use it on their trip. What a wonderful tool for navigation, just tell it where you want to go and it will show & speak directions, tell how far to your destination, and how far you have come so far. And, if you pay for certain subscriptions, it will also warn of things like traffic problems & road construction.

There are also some real downsides to GPS, one of which is the fact that if it can tell you where to go and how to get there – it also knows exactly where you are at all times! For those who like utmost privacy, this is a real problem. You can’t have it both ways.

Another downside is that if the wrong information is entered, all the guidance and timing will be completely useless and steer you wrong.

That’s the same way it is in life. God built in a GPS when we were created that is intended to be set according to His directions. He knows where we are and what we are doing at all times.

However, He has given us a free choice to choose any setting we want. The problem is, if we don’t choose His settings we find ourselves turning in directions that lead us to broken relationships, lives filled with anger & bitterness, drugs, loneliness, and many other bad situations.

How wonderful to have an aid to guide us on our journey, but how frustrating to rely on something that is using false settings. But remember, you have a choice of what the settings will be. If you want to have a joyful, complete, and fruitful life – but then enter data that will lead in the opposite direction, sorry about your luck!

The only true source for setting a course for our lives is through a personal relationship with Christ. In John 14:15-17 it say, “If you love Me you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever – the Spirit of truth.” Only through Christ and the Holy Sprit can we have a true course of navigation, and only as we respond to the directions can we stay on course. If we make a wrong turn He is there to redirect us to the highway so we can complete the journey.

If we do not have Christ’s true settings for our GPS we will not only fail in this life – but we will never reach our eternal destination with God. There is only one way to be saved and that is through Christ.