GPS Devo

I just wanted to share a devotional with you today.

G.P.S.

In the modern world of technology, most of us are familiar with a GPS system. It stands for Global Positioning System. It is a handheld system that uses satellites to tell you your position in the world. Those of us who use a GPS regularly will follow the directions given to us from the GPS without question or without hesitation. There was a period of time in my life that I had a job where they issued you a GPS as part of your work supplies. All of the guys who had the same job as I did had the same type of GPS and we called it Wanda. The name was derived from the fact that the voice that spoke the directions to us was in a woman’s voice. As we travelled through multiple states we would blindly follow Wanda’s voice because we were strangers in strange land and did not know where we were going otherwise. The down side to this system was that sometimes Wanda wanted to take you through places where roads didn’t exist or wouldn’t even be able to recognize where you needed to go.

This puts me in mind of the children of Israel. They followed a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night. They followed it through the wilderness, but when it led them to the banks of the Red Sea, they lost faith. It was then that our faithful God took them down a path that Wanda could have never taken them on. They were privileged, despite their grumblings, to get to use God’s Positioning System. They were convinced that they had been taken to the wrong place and that God didn’t know where they needed to go. However, they were blessed with front row seats to seeing God in all of His power and glory. Although they got where they were supposed to go following God’s Positioning System, they were not the first to use this fail proof system.

Before the time of the Israelites, Abraham used God’s Positioning System. God told Abraham to gather up everything and leave the land of his father and that he would tell him when he was “there”. Abraham responded in an obedient manner and just started travelling. This was in a similar fashion to how we would follow Wanda. When she would say in five hundred feet turn left...we would. God told Abraham to go...and he did. This time, as well, our faithful God told Abraham when he was “there” and he took up residence there. For his obedience, God was also faithful to bless Abraham more than he deserved. Our life has the ability to look the same way.

If we will commit ourselves fully to our relationship with Christ, He will guide us down the paths of life. He will always be more faithful to us than we will ever be to Him. It takes that relationship to be able to hear the Master’s voice. Just as easily as anyone can listen to Wanda and get where they need to go most of the time, if you follow God’s voice, you will always get to where you are supposed to be all the time. That may not be where you thought you should be, nevertheless it is where you will be glad He brought you to and where He will bless you for being. The choice is in your hands. Do you choose to lean on your own understanding, or will you let God’s Positioning System guide you through to the Promised Land? He won’t force you, but He will lead you if you let Him. Why will we listen to a man made device like Wanda without question or hesitation, but will question the Almighty Creator of the universe without fail or hesitation?

Creator or creation? You decide!

I love the way this ends! Creator or creation? What a great question! Do you want to spend your life following the Creator or would you rather follow the minidless masses who worship all phases of His creation? There are people who will put God in the back seat so that they can dedicate themselves to something He has blessed them with, but not to replace Him. It's your decision, but personally, I am voting for the Creator who provides us with the blessings versus the things He's blessed us with. Tomorrow I will show you a devotional on what God does when you put the creations in front of the Creator!