Lessons on the Road 5

Chat #5: Using a GPS

 The GPS (Global Positioning System) has to be one of the most intriguing inventions of the information age. I was first introduced to this by a friend who was visiting our house. We walked around the block together as he held a battery-operated GPS. A little dot on the map showed our progress as we walked. Later, another friend demonstrated his GPS in his car as a disembodied voice gave him instructions as to where to go. It wasn’t long after that that my wife gave me a GPS for Christmas. It is both comforting and scary to think that somewhere hundreds of miles out in space a group of satellites is tracking my every move—at least when I have the device turned on.  It’s scary because it means my privacy is reduced, but it’s comforting to know that I can never really be lost.

 

Every day we travel into the unknown. We wake up in the morning and we don’t know what a day will hold. We have plans, but we are never sure if they will unfold the way we hope. Unexpected things happen. Life takes a sudden turn. We have to detour. As Christians it is good to know that we are never alone because God has promised to be with us always. For us GPS means God’s Positioning System. He not only knows where we are at all times—He is in fact with us at all times. He is not out there in space keeping track of us—He is beside us and in us, guiding us all the way Home.

 

Psalm 32:8

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.