My son plays basketball on a travel ball team here in Southern CA. His team travels all over playing against some of the best teams in the region. Yesterday, we played in a tournament game in Riverside. Not being familiar with the area, I programed the address of our game into my GPS the night before so there would be no problem in finding the gym. Our family set out early on game day with our trusty GPS guiding us the whole way.
Approximately one mile from our destination, the GPS guided us off the freeway and told us to turn into an industrial park. My thoughts at this point were that the system was obviously wrong and that we were going to have to find the gym on our own. But since, we trusted the GPS this far (and we were early), I decided to continue following the system. We ended up in an area full of factories and warehouses. It was 8:00AM on a Saturday morning and no one was around. The large blue address on the side on a huge warehouse building indicated that we had arrived at our destination, but I continued driving down the vacant street a little ways because this address couldn’t possibly be the correct destination. Other parents began arriving and like a game of Follow the Leader gone wrong, we all formed a train of mis-guided souls, all doing the same thing….driving to one end of the street, making U-turn’s then driving to the other end of the street and doing the same. Obviously none of us considered the address we were guided to by the GPS to be the correct one.
At this point I decided to go inside the office of the building we were guided to and get directions to where we were supposed to be. I turned into the parking lot, which was situated on a hill and not visible from the street. I found that the parking lot was almost full of cars and a door on the side of the building (also not visible from the street) was open. We parked the car and walked up to the door to find 4 very nice basketball courts and several games already going on! From the outside you never would have guessed that this warehouse would be a basketball tournament location.
Proverbs 3:5 – 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 path…..KJV
Being directed daily by God’s Word is a very simple and basic concept. But for most of us, remaining mindful that trusting Him to lead and guide us continually in the smallest issues of our lives can be challenging. We struggle with our “intelligence” and what we have been programmed to accept as true versus what we believe to be untrue, as in my experience in the scenario above about a basketball tournament being held inside of a warehouse. God has made following Him so easy, and we struggle each day to make it difficult. I want to encourage you today to lean on God’s Word regardless of what your circumstances are telling you and you will find that He will never lead you down the wrong path.
Approximately one mile from our destination, the GPS guided us off the freeway and told us to turn into an industrial park. My thoughts at this point were that the system was obviously wrong and that we were going to have to find the gym on our own. But since, we trusted the GPS this far (and we were early), I decided to continue following the system. We ended up in an area full of factories and warehouses. It was 8:00AM on a Saturday morning and no one was around. The large blue address on the side on a huge warehouse building indicated that we had arrived at our destination, but I continued driving down the vacant street a little ways because this address couldn’t possibly be the correct destination. Other parents began arriving and like a game of Follow the Leader gone wrong, we all formed a train of mis-guided souls, all doing the same thing….driving to one end of the street, making U-turn’s then driving to the other end of the street and doing the same. Obviously none of us considered the address we were guided to by the GPS to be the correct one.
At this point I decided to go inside the office of the building we were guided to and get directions to where we were supposed to be. I turned into the parking lot, which was situated on a hill and not visible from the street. I found that the parking lot was almost full of cars and a door on the side of the building (also not visible from the street) was open. We parked the car and walked up to the door to find 4 very nice basketball courts and several games already going on! From the outside you never would have guessed that this warehouse would be a basketball tournament location.
Proverbs 3:5 – 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 path…..KJV
Being directed daily by God’s Word is a very simple and basic concept. But for most of us, remaining mindful that trusting Him to lead and guide us continually in the smallest issues of our lives can be challenging. We struggle with our “intelligence” and what we have been programmed to accept as true versus what we believe to be untrue, as in my experience in the scenario above about a basketball tournament being held inside of a warehouse. God has made following Him so easy, and we struggle each day to make it difficult. I want to encourage you today to lean on God’s Word regardless of what your circumstances are telling you and you will find that He will never lead you down the wrong path.