Lost

  I will be the first person to admit that my sense of direction is just plain awful.  It seems like I always turn the wrong direction when given a choice.  This reminds me of getting lost in Hammond, the town next door to us, when I first came to the church.  I have lived in the Twin Cities for at 15 years when I became a pastor, so I got used to seeing churches built in the middle of neighborhoods.  So here I was running around all the neighborhoods in Hammond looking for the Lutheran church.  I think I went through did about every single neighborhood on the east side of town, when it finally dawned on me that in small town America that churchs tended to be on the main drag and guess where Trinity was...on the main drag.  I thought I knew the best way to get there, it turned out that I didn't.  I would have done better to use my car's GPS to find Trinity.  This week, in service I talked about using a different kind of GPS, God Positioning System.  How many of us feel lost in our lives right now?  How many of us feel despair?  How many of feel us there is no purpose?  God's GPS allows us to find our direction and to evenutally our home.  The way to get God's GPS started is to key in our destination.  We do this by praying to God and asking God to help us with our feelings of being lost.  When God's GPS plots the route for us, the next thing which is really hard to do is to put trust in the route that God has for us.  How many times do we feel we know the better route than our car's GPS?  God's GPS causes us to have trust that God wants the best for us and that God's way is the best way.  Finally we need to act and begin to follow the route that is outlined to us on God's GPS.  When we do this, our feelings of being lost and despair turn to feelings of hope and purpose.  So have you engaged God's GPS?  If not, Why not?