We have all been lost before. I used to like getting lost; it helps with learning my way around. 

 

These days I tend to have kids in the car and getting lost is less of a priority. And less likely. We have Apple maps, Waze, etc.  

 

One evening, on our way to spend some time with friends, I didn’t believe my app. I knew where we were going enough that the app was a kind of safety measure. For some reason the app was giving the wrong directions. Knowing better I did not follow the wrong turns it insisted on having me make. 

 

Before long it became apparent to me that I was lost.

 

I was definitely not where I wanted to be and was not anywhere I was familiar with. Of course, Siri was telling me to “make a u-turn,” “turn in your license” and “stop the insanity," or something like that. I wasn't paying attention. 

 

Quickly enough I submitted. I admitted I was lost and I did as the GPS told me. Turning this way and that I began to recognize my surroundings and we got to where I wanted to go. It was humbling. To admit that I could have things my way. But what would have come if I continued on my course. More lost? Waste of time, that’s for sure. A full scale mutiny as one of the kids took over driving? Ok, probably not that last one, but there was no efficient way I was going to solve my lostness. Despite my best efforts there was no way I was going to get where I wanted to go.

 

We all find ourselves in this same dilemma, only with our LORD. 

 

We think we can find our own way. We may even know that we are told how to be, live, treat each other, but we think we can have our own way and God’s way. Our way feels right, seems right, and we are ever so confident that it is right. But, really, we are only getting ourselves more lost. It is only when we admit we were building our own ego, our own image, our own kingdom and leave all that that we can follow Jesus. 

 

Jesus is always there (maybe that's part of our problem). When we want to want Him, and His way, He will be there to show us and get us to where we want to go.