I think everyone has it happen to them at least once!
Getting lost.
My mother taught me to read maps when I was little.
I often went with her in the summer when I went from student to navigator and map reader as she worked three counties for Avon.
Reading maps is a very useful skill that is being lost with GPS and navigation programs linked to phones and cars.
I’ve been lost before. Traveling from Japan through Russia and Europe I got turned around a few times trying to figure out city maps. I needed to find a landmark!
Addie Sue, our four-year-old granddaughter, started early looking out the car window and observing scenery and the moving cars and trucks—-which she commented on as soon as she could.
She seems to be able to detect how to get places she has been, like her grocery store and kindergarten.
On our trip to Florida, Daniel was driving us all on the four lane road from one beach town to the other. Addie was keeping up with what was outside her car window.
On our way back, Addie Sue became concerned.
“Daddy, I think this is the wrong way,” she said.
“No, Addie Sue, we are going the right way to get back to our rooms.”
A pause as we keep driving.
“No, I think we are lost, Daddy!”
“Addie Sue we are going on the other side of the four-lane road, and you couldn’t see the things this side very well when we went to Destin. Leaving Destin and driving back to Panama City, we are on the other half of the four-lane road so you see different things.”
“We’re lost.”
Silence in the car.
She wasn’t convinced we were going the right way until we pulled up at our home away from home on the beach.
What do you use to guide you in your life? What “life map” do you follow? Some people seem to just wander around from one spot to another without a definite goal.
The Bible as the Word of God records Jesus’ teachings and how to find forgiveness for sin and eternal life. God’s Word tells of the dangers in life, what is right and wrong, and what eternal destinations we can choose. Everyone will end up in either Heaven or Hell.
Jesus said in Matthew 7:13-14: “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
Jesus is that gate!
“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6
Find the true spiritual map and follow it faithfully!
