Your GPS is a Lamp to My Feet
August 27, 2022 by Peter Lundell
Filed under Daily Devotions
By Peter Lundell –
Driving at night from Interstate 5 through the coastal mountains to San Jose. GPS says go this way. Really? But we need to go to the 101. Double lanes narrow to single. Road curves and turns. Seems to head the wrong direction.
“Pete, this can’t be right.”
I grumble.
“Turn around.” Wife is not happy.
But the GPS seems happy.
I consider tossing it on the road and running it over.
No lights anywhere but for other cars. Shuttered fruit stands the only structures in the dark.
How did this happen? Can’t trust a GPS. Maybe a glitch and it thinks the address is in another town.
“I’ll pull over and check the map.” But there’s no place to pull over. I say a bad word and keep driving.
She calls ahead. They have no idea. Not good. Let’s try anyway. What a dumb idea.
Wait. Huh? We’re on the 101. How did that happen?
Soon the GPS says, “Arriving at address . . .” And we’re in front of the house.
Returning the next day, the same dark windy road becomes a picturesque tour through hills and fruit fields. What a lovely drive.
And I think how often I’ve done this in life, and so have you. We encounter uncharted directions and field untested challenges. God’s GPS, a.k.a. the Bible, directs us but we don’t trust it. Our situation is different. God doesn’t understand. Or maybe He doesn’t care. So we’re on our own in the dark.
Until we find that we’re not. That we’re in His hands. And we arrive well. When we look back or revisit the situation, it seems fine. Because we know how it works out.
Blessed are we when we learn to trust even while it’s still dark and the road still twists.
“Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path. I have taken an oath and confirmed it, that I will follow your righteous laws. I have suffered much; preserve my life, LORD, according to your word” (Psalm 119:105–7 NIV).
“Lord, too often I have not trusted you. Forgive me. I choose here and now to trust You the next time my life’s path gets twisted or dark. Your Word is my map, and I travel in Your hands.”
Peter Lundell, author of Prayer Power and other books, is a writer, pastor, and Bible college teacher. At www.PeterLundell.com you can see his books, subscribe to his inspirational “Connections,” and get free downloads of many articles, parables, and short stories.