Opus 2025-437: Passengers Don’t Need GPS

I get very frustrated at times not knowing what’s down the road.  You would think by my age I would have learned to stop fretting over things I have no control over.  I think part of being created an image of God is that we want to take charge of things and to make decisions.  At least we want to know what the decisions are and what the options are.  We want to know why the decisions were made.  When you’re in the backseat, you don’t have that opportunity.

When you’re sitting in the back and the seat in front of you has a headrest, it’s a very good chance that you can’t even see the choices that are ahead.  There’s no way which you would know which is the right route.  You have to trust the driver.  If you are the driver, you might have a GPS, you might have been there before, you might have checked out a paper map.  You might have a wife giving you instructions.  But if you’re in the backseat, all you can do is look out the window and listen.

That’s kind of like what it is living by faith.  Often in life, we are not in the driver seat.  I guess in reality you would say we never are really in the driver seat.  I remember the semi humorous line that somebody submitted to the title, “God Is My Co-Pilot”.  The correct statement should’ve been that God is the pilot and I am the passenger.

Relax.  God will give you the information you need when you need it.  Think of an actually reliable GPS.  I don’t mean the ones that tell you to go right 10 feet past the intersection.  I’m talking about the GPS that tells you well ahead of time to get over in the right lane and get ready to turn right.

I almost wish that God could give us a little loudspeaker on our shoulders, which would tell us every once in a while in that phrase that someone came up with, “I’ve got this.”

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