So I don't know if you have heard the analogy of letting God be the driver in your life. You know, as opposed to you being the driver and occasionally consulting Him for advice. Well, this morning while I ate breakfast (the yummy trail mix grape nuts), I guess I was in a pensive mood. What I thought was a brief rumination about this image turned into something more when I thought another component to the illustration. Maybe you have heard this before but I don't think I have. So to continue with the analogy, it is good to let God be the driver but it seems to me that that is not enough. You have to give him the map, too. In other words, you can't always know where you are going, what the end destination will be (well, other than where ever it is, He will be with you). I have to trust Him and that He knows me so well that where ever He is taking me, it is the best place possible. Oddly, I find that this is most challenging to me.
I can accept that God is my driver, though not always perfectly. And I can accept that He isn't always going to tell whether we are going to make a left turn or right, though sometimes I might tell Him my preference. But to not know the end pointer of our Google map is something really hard for me to deal with. I tried coming up with an area of my life where I can accept this as a way of taking it from a small perspective to help me deal with it in the larger perspective. I couldn't. I always want to know the final destination and this grieves me because I know that it robs me of a deeper faith in God. Anyway I still need to reflect some more on this and spend some time listening to God. I haven't had time yet to find in the Word of God passages that complement these thoughts. When I do, I will post them.
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