I recently got my very first GPS device (a TomTom One LE) and have just been astounded by the little sucker. I have never been the greatest at efficiently getting from Point A to Point B… I do get there eventually… but I often make wrong turns along the way. Not so with my TomTom. I have maps of the entire United States and Canada loaded into this little box… and if I ever want to go to Guam, I have a map for that as well. My little box will guide me around and let me know if I have missed a turn or if there is a Red Lobster nearby… very important stuff!

Many of you know by now that I resigned from my position at Second Baptist in Monticello on Wednesday. This really isn’t the venue to discuss the whole situation, but for those of you that read here regularly… I was not asked to resign (this means I didn’t resign because of some nefarious action on my part… no “peeping tom” or embezzling or anything like that… thought I should clear that up ’cause… you know… it happens sometimes). Through a lot of prayer, I felt that I and my family had come to a point in this church in which I could no longer have an effective ministry. The scary part of the situation is that I do not currently have another position lined up as of today (I am speaking with people, but the process sometimes takes quite a while).
So, this is where my TomTom doesn’t quite measure up… it can’t tell me where to go if I don’t know where I want to go (or should go). That’s why I actually rely more on a God-Positioning Satellite (GPS… get it… I know, very corny). The funny thing about the God version of GPS is that sometimes He doesn’t reveal the final destination, but does instead give us the directions on how to get there. Many people (perhaps rightfully so) look at a person that resigns from a position without having another one lined up as being foolish and irresponsible, but if that person has his/her GPS (the God one) device turned on, then knowing the final destination is less important than beginning the journey.

So, I ask for each of your prayers for my family as we journey out in faith and trust that God’s plan is bigger than our own.

Romans 8:35-39

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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