Lost!

Recently I had to take my car to the garage for a service and MOT.  Some of you will know that I have no sense of direction, so on this occasion my daughter came along with me to the garage in Norwich where I bought the car.  Off we went, with me following my daughter in her car and all was well as we arrived at the garage, we left my car and went off into the city.

At the appointed time we returned to the garage to collect the car and I started to follow my daughter home whilst also listening to the instructions from my satnav. After a short distance I lost my daughter and almost at the same time my satnav decided to fail me and went silent and I had lost all connection with any instructions and guidance she should be giving me!  I then soon realised that I had missed a vital turning as I didn’t recognise the road that I was on!  My satnav was silent and I was completely lost. What should I do – panic!!!  So I decided that I should pull over and try to make my satnav work – of course there was nowhere to pull over, but at last I saw a pub car park and pulled in, tried in desperation to fiddle around with my satnav, but it just wouldn’t play ball.  I said, “Okay God, it’s over to you, I have no idea where I am, but somehow I have to get home as I have children to pick up from school.” I don’t know how I got home, which way I went, quite probably miles out of my way, but somehow God told me where I should go and, very relieved, I arrived home in time to collect the children.

This is often like life, somehow we take the wrong road, miss the turning that God wanted us to take and land up way off course! The great thing is we have a Saviour who will lead us back to the right path, we just have to trust Him, and stick close to Him as He guides us.

There is a song we used to sing as youngsters and it goes like this:

I do not know what lies ahead
The way I cannot see.
Yet one stands near to be my guide,
He’ll show the way to me.

I know who holds the future and He’ll guide my with His hand,
With God things don’t just happen, everything by Him is planned.
So as I face tomorrow with its problems large and small,
I’ll trust the God of miracles and give to Him my all.

Cathy