God’s GPS Pt. 1

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. Jeremiah 33:3 KJV

A compilation Mar 17, 2015

Without a doubt the latest technological developments help us understand a bit more about God and how He manages His affairs from the heavenly spheres. An illustration of prayer is the cell phone, used to immediately communicate with someone on the other side of the world. The computer is capable of storing every bit of information needed by a company, right down to its smallest details. This helps us understand how God knows us so well that the Bible says that even our very hairs are numbered.1

One of the miracles in the Bible that has always caught my attention is the one in Matthew 17:27, where Jesus tells Peter to catch a fish and take out of its mouth a coin needed to pay a Roman tax. How did Jesus know exactly which would be the right fish to have the coin?

Another similar miracle occurs when He tells His disciples to go to a neighboring town to find the donkey that He would ride on the triumphal entry into Jerusalem.2 I wonder, did Jesus have a super-sophisticated and precise GPS to know where and when they would find the donkey?

I have often seen God’s GPS at work in my life. How many times has He guided me to find something that I lost, or to meet a certain person, or to find a needed place? And many times it is not only the right place, but also the precise moment.

Recently I received a real surprise. My wife and I had prayed to find a specialized mechanic who could do some repairs on the motor of our camper that we use on our missionary trips. Not having found anyone yet, we began our trip confident that everything would work out all right.

After a few days of traveling through the little coastal towns, I unexpectedly felt an impulse to drive down a certain street without really understanding why. There was no sign that had caught our attention, so we followed the street to the end, when suddenly a man came out to meet us and said, “You came here because of the GPS, right? The GPS brought you here.” Totally taken aback, we asked him what he meant.

He went on to explain that he has a mechanic who specializes in motor homes. Recently a man who is traveling the world had some work done there and had been so satisfied that he dedicated an entire page of his blog to them. On his website he put the GPS point so that anyone traveling in a motor home would be able to find them.

The funny thing is that our camper does not have GPS. We had been led to the exact location with God’s GPS, and at the perfect moment, as our motor really could not have gone further without the needed repairs.

A few days later, with our newly repaired motor, we were off again, but not without praying first—asking the Lord for His blessing and divine guidance. “Your ears will hear a word behind you, ‘This is the way, walk in it,’ whenever you turn to the right or to the left.”3—Carlos Campos

1 Matthew 10:30.
2 Mark 11:1–10.
3 Isaiah 30:21 NAS.
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TAKE HIM AT HIS WORD!

We're supposed to believe the Word, simply because God said so! The Lord wants us to have faith in the Word and not always have to have a sign. The Word is all the sign we need, He said: "No sign shall be given them" (Mk.8:12).

Why does God insist we have to believe in something we cannot see and cannot feel, purely by faith in His Word, trusting Him just like a little child has to trust a parent? It's because the Lord loves faith! He loves us because we believe Him, just because He said so! It's a way of showing our love and our confidence in Him. Faith really shows that we have love.

Trust Him! Take Him at His Word!




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