We just traded vans. I seem to spend more time in my van than any other place it seems a lot of times these days. Our new van came with this fancy navigation system, not something we needed or were looking for but the van was a great deal. I am not a tech savvy kind of girl so it was super overwhelming to try and figure out how to use all the computer features but I am managing to figure out a few things. There is button on the navigation system labeled "Guide Me Home." When I push this button it finds my current location and maps out the road home.When I am far from home and its been a long day I love to push the guide me home button its like a relief. It also makes me think of life. My life in Jesus. And Salvation. When I trusted Jesus as my Savior twenty two years ago it was like I found the "Guide Me Home" life button. My life journey is on a navigation to my true home and eternal destination of heaven. To live with Jesus forever. This life is temporary. I am just traveling through and the traveling can bring so many unknowns. I need to be guided home because I have not walked this journey before especially now. As I type I am sitting in the 6th floor of the University of Iowa Hospital while my son is having brain surgery. I cannot imagine sitting here without the Guide Me Home of Jesus being on my life. I sit and type while someone's hands are intricately performing microscopic movements to correct a herniation on his brain. Days before these moments I could not imagine sitting here waiting in these hours. But here it is and here I am and it is happening. And I want you all to know when You choose the guide me home button of the life giving name of Jesus for the forgiveness of your sins and the eternal destination of heaven you get a map. His Word. and it leads you. I need to be lead right now. Because as a mom I want to control all of this for my son and take his place and keep him from going through this trial but I can't. I don't have control. I have limits. And I need a map because my human emotions are doing 360's in this parking lot of life as I wait. But the great thing is because of choosing the "Guide Me Home" destination with Jesus I get the map and by the Power of His Holy Spirit I can read it and it opens the path and clears the way, even in the 6th floor waiting room at the University of Iowa Hospital. Today I read "His grace is sufficient for you, for his power is made perfect in weakness, therefore I will boast all the more about weaknesses so that Christ's power may rest on me That is why for Christ sake I delight in weaknesses in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak then I am strong."(II Corinthians) And this verse is truth for me right now. Anyone can argue that God is not real and Jesus wasn't the Savior. But not with me because this word of His that talks about his grace being sufficient is coming to life in me and my son and our family now. We can't muster up this grace, we cannot create our own peace. It is being given to us in these moments as we need it. I couldn't picture doing this just days ago and now I realize I wasn't being given the grace days ago for these moments now. The grace is given as needed and its sufficient and my weakness is real just as real as the perfect power of Jesus.
I would dare anyone to test this grace for themselves. Try Jesus and choose the "Guide Me Home" button for your life. Your life will not magically become easy. You will hit traffic jams, road blocks and detours. You will question at times if you are going the right way. You may have to stop and wait. But with Jesus as the navigator of your heart and the map of His word to follow you will live with an unending hope an undeniable peace. And you will live out your days on your journey with purpose and meaning as your are Guided Home.
