Recalculating

Drive along the highlighted route

There is a better route

Recalculating

Turn left in .4 miles

Make u-turn

Recalculating

My husband and I got away this weekend on a much needed “Marriage Retreat.”  Now this wasn’t just any Marriage Retreat.  You see, my husband HATES Marriage Retreats with a passion.  He says it’s all about telling the men how worthless they are and making them cry.  Oh well.  Regardless of what you think about Marriage Retreats we drove to the North Ga. Mountains then on to Chattanooga, TN, and finally to Cloudland Canyon (Alone.  That’s the only kind of retreat he’ll do)).  Lots of driving on roads we weren’t familiar with.  Enter the Garmin navigational instrument (GPS).  My husband is obsessed with any electronic device.  A Blackberry, camera, laptop, etc., so it was no surprise that we connected the Garmin.  Now if you’re familiar at all with these types of directional helps you too might get quite annoyed with the voices that constantly boss you around.  We tried the Aussie/English voice and stuck with that one.  It still irritates me when they tell me they’re recalculating.  What exactly does that mean?  Did I take the wrong turn?  Is it doing a math equation?  Did the device change its “mind?”  Recalculating is very unnerving to me.  I start to wonder if the GPS knows the way to go and if I’ll ever get to my desired destination.

Makes me think . . .

THE Way.  That’s what Jesus said about Himself.  He is THE Way.  Not A Way or SOME Way but THE WAY to God the Father.  (John 14:6)  God told King David in the Old Testament,

“I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.” (Psalm 32:8)

I love that!  God chooses to instruct and teach me in the way I should go.  He watches over me in that way.  What great confidence that gives me to know that my God will guide me.   And then if I get off track,

“And 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.” (Isaiah 40:21)

Do you see that?!  He will guide me right back to His chosen best for me.  And if I’m tempted?  Well, He has an escape plan for that too!

“No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, that you may be able to endure it.” (I Corinthians 10:13)

Somehow I find myself thinking that my way is better, faster, more clever than God’s way.  He also addresses that:

“There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” (Proverbs 14:12)

It looks right, seems right, feels right but . . . It might not be a physical death but when I venture off on my own path, taking my own directions, it leads to a mess that can easily be categorized as death.  Slow learners, all of us.  I have to do a lot of recalculating when I’m on my own.  When I go to His Word I find His direction and He leads me back to His way.

“Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” (Psalm 119:105)

He is THE Way.

I never get tired of His voice.

His way always leads to life.

And He never recalculates.

See Felicia’s other posts in the Makes Me Think series:

Makes Me Think…Overcomers!!!

Makes Me Think … of My Eternal Inheritance

Makes Me Think … of Life!

Makes Me Think … Homecoming

Makes Me Think … Not a Resurface