Christian Devotional-Stories and Bible verses about the presence of God in our lives

Finding Gods Guidance

Finding Gods guidance …

We are lost…

Gods Guidance

We just don’t know it, yet.

How, you ask, did we get lost?

We’re visiting a small town just a few miles up the road…

I used my GPS to get here…

But I don’t need it to get home…

I know the way…

Or so I think…

Just one right turn, and one left turn…

And we’ll be on the highway leading almost to our door.

I turn right…

And then turn left at the next light.

We drive a few miles…

“Gee,” my wife says, “The road sure looks different than it did on the way here…”

A warning…

A warning I ignore…

After all, I know the way home…

We pass a sign for a small town…

Funny, I think…

Isn’t that town west of us?

A second warning I ignore…

Still confident I know the way home…

The traffic gets very light.

“Traffic Circle Ahead,” warns a sign….

Traffic circle?

On a busy state highway?

I don’t remember a traffic circle…

Could it be another warning that we’re lost?

“we’ve been driving 45 minutes,” my wife says…

“Didn’t it only take about 20 minutes to get to there?”

A final warning…

Maybe I don’t know the way home…

Maybe I should look for a little guidance…

I turn on the GPS…

Sure enough…

Someplace I went the wrong direction…

After 45 minutes of driving…

We are still an hour from home…

A twenty-minute drive…

Turned into two hours of aimless wandering…

Aimless wandering that could have been avoided…

How like my life…

How often I wander aimlessly ..

Forgetting that Gods guidance is always available…

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Psalm 32:8

I plan my route through life…

Forgetting to seek Gods guidance …

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.  Proverbs 16:9

I trust my own understanding…

Forgetting where real understanding lies…

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6

Forgetting that Gods guidance is always available to light our way…

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.  Psalm 119:105

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