I know that if I drive in the eastern direction, I’ll eventually get to the east coast.

Maybe.

There would be obstacles that would make me go north or south on the journey. I might even have to double back a couple of times. Mountain ranges, detours, swamps, and traffic. I might take a side street to bypass traffic. Then there is weather: snow storms, flash flooding, tornados, and maybe a hurricane.

Even if I knew to head East, there are things outside my control that could cause delays, confusion, and ultimately getting myself lost.

There would also be things that would make me stop that would be in my control…like BoJangles. I’d get distracted every couple of exits to get more fried chicken the closer I went back home.

Remember when Mapquest came out? You could type in the address on the internet and it would give you step by step instructions. You would print it out and have an updated map….until there was a road closure, then what? It was updated all the time.

GPS came out but then the problem with those is they would get outdated and were very expensive. You could later subscribe but then you would lose the signal.

You could always ask for directions, but you will get five different responses from five different people. I would get my youth pastor lost all the time because I told him how to get to my house by the amount of fields, sizes of trees, and the tobacco barns. It made sense to me but confused him!

Needless to say it was easy to get lost when I first started driving. Now, it’s hard to get lost! I plug my iPhone in the car, go to the google maps app, type in my destination address, view map, setup the phone on the dashboard, and we are off! Google will give me alternate routes for anticipated traffic. It will give me a heads up on severe storms. It advises road closures. It literally is my life line while I’m driving from point A to point B.

All this to say, are you using google maps to get you to where you need to be? Are you using the latest technology available or are you stuck in 1995 printing out old maps? Are you crossing your fingers that the guy at the corner store knew what was he was saying when he told you to take the third left after you pass the CVS on the right? I know the majority of us would use google maps or the equivalent so that we wouldn’t get lost, period.

Why don’t we do that with everything else? Why don’t we ask the creator of the universe His thoughts? Maybe find out what His directions would be? Maybe we do, and we get the word to do something and we take off to do it. But then we don’t get updated info for the next steps. When I’m driving I want to know when to turn to avoid any delays. I want the same in my life, I want to have the most accurate info available to me and that’s God! Plus like google maps, if I do miss my turn He redirects me to get back on the right course. God wants to guide us in every step we take!

If you haven’t yet, talk with God to get your directions today. It’s never to late to get back to where you need to be.