The GPS for Spiritual Life: Trusting God

If you ask my family, they will tell you that I am directionally impaired.

We have the family stories to back up the diagnosis. Like the time I took a shortcut from the doctor’s office with my two girls and ended up in another state. Or, another shortcut experience that ended up taking an extra hour and a half to travel ten miles to our home. They know not to tell me to turn north or south. It just doesn’t work.

Thankfully, the GPS in the car and on my phone make me capable of traveling by myself, because if I depend on my internal directionality, there is no telling where I will end up. I have no true north.

This is a life problem for me, but Proverbs 14:12 tells us that this is a spiritual problem for all people. There we read,

“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”

This is such an important truth that it is repeated in Proverbs 16:25.

Spiritually, we can think we are doing right and going the right way, but if we are depending on our own hearts and minds to make those decisions, we will find death instead of life. Our feelings will lead us astray. What we think will lead us astray. Our mindsets will lead us astray. Doing the very best that we can will lead us astray.

Because spiritually, we are directionally impaired.

This is why we need a Savior.

John 14:6 gives us the GPS that solves our spiritual directional impairment if we are willing to listen and follow.

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

There is only one way to God. It’s Jesus. There is only one way to Heaven. It’s Jesus.

He paid the price for our sin, and His grace opened the door to Heaven for us. If we only believe Him.

We can go our own way – the way that leads to death. Or we can follow the Way – Jesus, to Life Eternal. When we believe and follow Him, He heals our spiritual directional impairment, and we begin the journey of our lives that leads to life eternal.

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil (Proverbs 3:5 – 7, KJV).