Global Positioning System (GPS)

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is changing the way we work, travel and play. Using the signals from multiple satellites, a GPS receiver can compute your location anywhere in the world. Using the information can help a lost hiker return to camp, enable a driver to locate a house in a strange city, or guide commercial fisherman back to the place of a big catch. In a very real sense, it is "guidance from above."

But it helps only the person who believes the information and acts on it. What if a person viewed the GPS readout and said, "I can't possibly be where this says I am"? What good would it be if a person turned off the unit, jammed it in a pocket and headed out on his own, saying, "I know I'm going east, even if this thing says I'm going south?"

In a similar way, God's guidance benefits only those who will trust and obey His word. For example, Jesus said in John 14:6, "...I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, except through me." if someone were to read that and then attempt to get to heaven by some other means, the truth they read in the Bible would do them no good. Think about it!

Taken from The Cast Net, a publication of Fishers of Men Ministries, Int.