Excuse Me.....Are You Lost?

If you go the wrong way—to the right or to the left—you will hear a voice behind you saying, “This is the right way. You should go this way.”

Isaiah 30:21 

 

Okay, I admit it....I speak sarcasm with some fluency.  I was picking up a couple of items from the grocery store the other day and when I got to the checkout, the exhausted clerk asked in a monotone exasperated I-Have-To-Ask-You-This tone of voice, "Did you find everything you were looking for?"  I wish I could say that I could not stop the words from coming out of my mouth, but that would be a lie.  Without looking up from the card reading contraption, I said, "Well......I found the peanut butter and the bread, but I just could NOT find where you keep the walrus jelly."

 

Men seem to have a reputation for not wanting to stop to ask directions.  I rode with one person who had a GPS on their phone and this person got angry with the voice because it was female and he didn't like some female telling him where to go.  But let's face facts, we don't like being lost, but we're also not very good at following directions sometimes either.

 

But imagine if you were traveling along the road, lost and looking for some sign of where you need to go, when you hear a voice in your ear say, "Might want to turn around, the bridge ahead is out and I love you enough to keep you safe."  Hmmmm......'But God doesn't really talk to us like that, Padre?" (I heard you say that).  But consider this, Scripture gives us direction and teaches us right from wrong.  Scripture even gives us some wonderful examples of good people making big blunders because they didn't follow God's directions.

 

Ponder this thought for a moment:  When you go to a city you have never visited before, do you know how to get to all the destinations you need?  NO!  It takes time and practice to learn the roads and the shortcuts (the ones that really are shortcuts, not the "more scenic" ones that take hours longer).  When we make it a habit to read the Bible, we will begin to find the direction we need to go.  When there's a question in our mind, God will bring to memory a verse that tells us where to go.

 

It's still not too late to begin a Bible Study....just sayin'