I recently wrote a post sharing that I probably could win awards for being the world’s most directionally-challenged person! In fact, when I first moved to my present location, instead of giving me a “house-warming gift,” some friends gave me a Garmin to help me find my way around the new city! [My personal thought is that the inventor of this marvelous device should receive . . . well . . . whatever the biggest, most important, and most prestigious award there is!]

Though I know my GPS friend (I called her “Greta” for “Greta the Garmin!”) will eventually get me to my location, I do tend to panic for a brief moment when I hear the word “recalculating.” In fact, with my inability to ascertain directions, my poor little “Greta” often says “recalculating” several times in succession in her computer-like voice!

I recently came to a point on a short trip where, because of highway construction, I hit a detour. The familiar “recalculating” came blaring out at the 80% volume selection. I took a deep breath and thought, “Okay, Greta – I need you to guide me through this because I don’t have a clue where this new road will take us.” The highway I was so comfortable in driving was literally torn up and blocked off because of potholes, repairs, and problems with the road. So this path was assigned to me by those who knew the dangers of the road and who knew a safer path for drivers to take.

The bright orange signs, carefully posted by the construction crew and complete with arrows, combined with the help provided by Greta, were actually a blessing rather than a frustration! In what seemed to be no time at all, I was back on the main road – safely around the construction zone.

Right now, my life’s “GPS” is repeatedly saying “recalculating – recalculating – recalculating” in tones hard to ignore. Yet I know that this detour is for my good. I know I will arrive on the other side of the detour at precisely the right location. However, just as in my travel illustration, I must watch the signs, listen for the directions, and in blind trust, I must follow where I am led to go.

The God of all creation is fully aware of every need that I currently have and of the path I must take. I will read the Scriptures for His instruction, listen for direction from the wise counsel He has placed in my life, and in complete trust, I will follow wherever, whenever, and however He leads. No need for panic. No need to chart my own path. Just joyfully follow – because, along with the prolific hymn writer, Fanny Crosby, I can gratefully say:

“All the way my Savior leads me, what have I to ask beside?
Can I doubt His tender mercy, Who through life has been my Guide?

…This my song through endless ages, ‘Jesus led me all the way!'”

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