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It seems everyone I know uses GPS these days. More often than not people use Google maps on their cell phones. No one uses maps anymore.
It's funny Google maps isn't always right. Usually this is because of a new street or new neighborhood that Google maps hasn't "caught-up" to yet.
It has happened on occasion that I have been led to a dead end road. More often it has happened that I was told to go around a long way when there
was an obvious shorter way in front of me. Yet despite the fact that Google maps is sometimes wrong, we trust it. We follow it. We take directions from it.
One nice things about google maps, is if we get off track, or a little bit lost... it says "recalculating", and then it does it's best to get us back on track.
If we are pointed in the wrong direction, we can turn around. We can still choose to go the wrong way if we want to, google maps doesn't force you to go the "right way".
There have been times in my life when the Holy Spirit told me I was going the wrong way. It wasn't an audible voice. But much like Paul says....
Acts 8:29 Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go up and join this chariot."
Acts 13:4 So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus.
The Holy Spirit sometimes tells us where to go.
Acts 16:6 They passed through the Phrygian and Galatian region, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia;
Acts 16:7 and after they came to Mysia, they were trying to go into Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them;
And sometimes the Holy Spirit tells us where NOT to go.
But still sometimes we get off track, sometimes we get headed in the wrong direction. More often than not it's because we aren't listening.
We turn off the sound on our little Holy Spirit GPS. But by the grace of God, I have found that when that happens, the Holy Spirit is "recalculating".
It seems God always has a "plan B" (or plan C or plan D, or however many it takes) to get us back on track. We can resist the Holy Spirit,
but that just gets us more lost.
Why do we do this? Is it because we don't trust God? Do we trust google maps (which isn't always right) more than we trust God? (who IS always right).
It's funny Google maps isn't always right. Usually this is because of a new street or new neighborhood that Google maps hasn't "caught-up" to yet.
It has happened on occasion that I have been led to a dead end road. More often it has happened that I was told to go around a long way when there
was an obvious shorter way in front of me. Yet despite the fact that Google maps is sometimes wrong, we trust it. We follow it. We take directions from it.
One nice things about google maps, is if we get off track, or a little bit lost... it says "recalculating", and then it does it's best to get us back on track.
If we are pointed in the wrong direction, we can turn around. We can still choose to go the wrong way if we want to, google maps doesn't force you to go the "right way".
There have been times in my life when the Holy Spirit told me I was going the wrong way. It wasn't an audible voice. But much like Paul says....
Acts 8:29 Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go up and join this chariot."
Acts 13:4 So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus.
The Holy Spirit sometimes tells us where to go.
Acts 16:6 They passed through the Phrygian and Galatian region, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia;
Acts 16:7 and after they came to Mysia, they were trying to go into Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them;
And sometimes the Holy Spirit tells us where NOT to go.
But still sometimes we get off track, sometimes we get headed in the wrong direction. More often than not it's because we aren't listening.
We turn off the sound on our little Holy Spirit GPS. But by the grace of God, I have found that when that happens, the Holy Spirit is "recalculating".
It seems God always has a "plan B" (or plan C or plan D, or however many it takes) to get us back on track. We can resist the Holy Spirit,
but that just gets us more lost.
Why do we do this? Is it because we don't trust God? Do we trust google maps (which isn't always right) more than we trust God? (who IS always right).
