Lost

I was going to visit someone who I had never been to their house before. I made sure I had the address in my phone map search and set off with all the confidence in the world. It was an area that I knew didn’t get much of a signal, so I was counting on the map program to do its job. I went left, and then right. I drove down this road and around that corner. I got into a straight stretch and ended up in the middle of nowhere. It said that I had arrived, but all I could see was snow, and trees, and more snow... not one house or building or mailbox, or fire number. I knew there had been another similar address, so I was going to enter that in, but there was no reception. I knew that I could use the compass to get to a town east of me, but then what? I started heading east, waiting for my signal to get better. All of a sudden, I came across a road that was familiar. Did I find the house I was looking for? No, but the road I recognized went to a home I had also intended to visit sometime in the near future. That day was today. It was a good visit, and I think an important one. I might have to wait until Sunday and ask the individual if I might stop by for a visit and the directions to getting there. I’m even thinking that, since we boarder another state, I might have been in the wrong state. I at least know I was in a state of confusion, but that is a whole different thing. God’s timing and God’s way. That is what I learned today. How often we trust the world or the things of the world to get us to where we want to be. A couple problems with that. Where we want to be and where God wants us to be might be very, very different. The other, and more obvious issue is trusting the world and not first seeking God. As His word says, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added as well”. It sounds so easy and obvious when we say it, and yet we continue to seek our own way. If, instead of just following what a machine told me, I zoomed in to where it was directing me, I would have known it was the wrong way. When we blindly listen to others, even Christians, without zooming in on what God’s word says, we often find ourselves in places that we never intended to be. Lord, please give me wisdom. Father, we get lost in our own thoughts and desires and often don’t even recognize that we are lost. Give us eyes to see. Amen