By Gina Caswell Kelly
I have been traveling quite a bit recently for work. I was thinking about how traveling has changed. When I was young, our family would go off on trips with a grocery sack full of food and a Coleman stove. Roadside parks were our restaurants. We stayed in motels, not hotels. The ones where you had a little carport right by your room. It might have a swimming pool. Mostly “Mom and Pop” operations. Now days, you stop at a fast food, or local restaurant, and you stay in a two or three story hotel, where it is a walk to your car and you just hope nobody messes with it during the night!
Staying and eating are not all that has changed. We would travel with road maps from the local service station, and they were free! We had a drawer full of them and you would take the ones needed for your journey. I always loved looking at the maps and figuring out our route. I loved reading the maps and looking at all the small and larger towns on the route. And figuring out how far it was by looking at the legend on the bottom of the map. Boy, has that changed!
As I travel now, I put my destination in my phone and head out. My car map pops up and a lovely voice tells me when my next turn is, where there is road construction, and if there have been police reported in the area. Amazing! Until it isn’t. You use a map or GPS because you are in unfamiliar territory. Because it is unfamiliar, you have to trust your GPS. As I was traveling recently, my lovely voice in my car said to turn left at the next road. I got to that road and it was a dirt road! I declined that option and stayed on the road on which I was traveling, and soon the little voice popped up with an alternate, no dirt road, route that got me where I wanted to be. But, for a second there, my GPS had let me down.
The point of all this is that there is one GPS system that will never let us down. That would be God’s Positioning System. God always knows the way, and He knows the best way. Oh, there will still be hills and valleys and sharp curves, and maybe even the occasional dirt road. But we do not have to worry, because God is always with us and He knows well the road in front of us.
So, no matter how much the way we travel has changed, the way God guides us has never and will never change. He knows the way and He walks with us all the way. Plug into God’s SPS! It will make a difference!
