God's GPS - Final
You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Isaiah 55:12 NIV
Published on Anchor March 2015 - (Continue - Final}
I can save you so much time when you receive My guidance daily. I can whisper instruction in your ear as you move along, so that you do a good and proper job. I can lead you so you don’t botch things up and have to go back and do it over or undo a mess. I can lead you of My Spirit so you do your work with excellence and not haphazardly. When you’re working in the Spirit, in communication with Me, you reap fruit that remains.—Jesus, speaking in prophecy
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God has filled life full of puzzles, problems, mysteries, and suspense to challenge our intellect, our faith, and our trust in Him as we set out to try to find the answers.
In trying to show us His will, God sometimes sets a mystifying puzzle before us. He sometimes speaks in riddles and mysteries that are hard to understand in order to get us to think and pray, but He almost always gives us a starting clue. Then He leads us on step by step. We never know what’s going to happen until we take the next step.
He likes us to seek His answers, because this causes us to exercise our faith in Him and His Word and His divine guidance and magnanimity, His parental love. It shows we trust in Him when we obey Him, even if we don’t know what’s at the end of the road. We may not see the answer, we may not know the solution or the place He’s leading to or what we’re going to find, but we’re trusting God to fulfill His promises, like Abraham did when he obeyed God and went out, not even knowing where he was going.4—David Brandt Berg
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In many ways life is like a long road trip, and to successfully navigate through our years we each need trustworthy guidance. Let me put it this way: life is full of decisions that make our days feel like one “fork in the road” after another, and we need help in knowing which way we should go. For example: when we’re younger, we want to know where to go to college and what to major in when we get there. We want to know what career is in line with the good work God has prepared in advance for us to do. Later we want guidance as to who to marry as well as direction when it comes to raising children. We want wisdom to help us know how to deal with life’s trials and tribulations. The fact is, we all need guidance in life—all the time. Plus, in this fallen world where morals are blurred, we need help in order to determine what is right and what is wrong. I mean, with so many broad paths, it’s hard to find the straight and narrow one.
It has been said that the decisions we make, make us, and to a large extent that is true. A life well-lived is a life full of good decisions. A tragic life is often littered with ill-considered judgments…
All this goes to show that we need a “GPS” in life that we can count on to be absolutely reliable—and the wonderful news is that God is more than qualified to fill this role. As Isaiah proclaimed, “The Lord of hosts … is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance.”5
In fact, the Bible says that even though He keeps track of the moon and the stars, not a single bird falls to the ground without God knowing exactly what is going on. His knowledge even covers the trivial, such as the latest count of the hairs on your head. Hebrews 4:13 puts it this way, “All things are naked and open to the eyes of God.” This means that God’s knowledge includes everything there is to know about you and the trials and decisions you are facing in life. Isn’t that comforting?—Mark Adams
4 Hebrews 11:8.
5 Isaiah 28:29.
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