| Edition #08-30 |
Have you ever said or done something then wondered why? Have you ever found yourself in the wrong
place such as a place of sickness or depression? How about fighting with your mate or yelling at your kids
after swearing you wouldn't do it again?
Many of us know what a GPS is - a global positioning signal. GPS is a satellite-based navigation system.
One use of it is to give directions when traveling.
To get to an address you don't know the directions to, you enter into GPS the address or place you want to
end up. Once you begin driving, the GPS will direct you to your final destination. Just follow the directions
and you will arrive where you want to be.
Input the wrong address into the GPS then take off on your trip. No matter how much you want to go to the
correct address, the GPS will take you to the wrong address. You can beg, cry, pray, and hope you will get
to the right address, but until you input the correct address, you will keep heading the wrong way.
That is easy to understand - anytime you've overridden the small voice that said, "Don't eat that entire pan
of brownies; it will ruin your diet" and ate all the brownies, you've been led by your carnal desires.
We are a spirit, we live in a body and we have a soul (mind, will, emotions). Just like the GPS can only take
us somewhere based on the information input into it, we are led by what we put in.
Fill up with wrong stuff and we'll end up where we don't want to be, doing what we didn't want to do. Too
much junk - worldly television, worldly books, worldly advice, worldly activities, or simply no Word and no
time with God - will cause us to go the wrong direction.
If we want the voice that said, "Don't eat those brownies" to be stronger than our desire to dive face first into
the chocolate, we have to spend more time with God than worldly things.
Galatians 5:16-17, Living Bible version, "I advise you to obey only the Holy Spirit's instructions. He will tell
you where to go and what to do, and then you won't always be doing the wrong things..."
By reading our Bible, spending time worshiping God, studying faith-based books, downloading sermons
from faith-based ministers - then DOING what we've read, we will then find ourselves consistently in the right
place at the right time, making the right choices!
Inspiration Copyright © 2008 Nan C Loyd
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
place such as a place of sickness or depression? How about fighting with your mate or yelling at your kids
after swearing you wouldn't do it again?
Many of us know what a GPS is - a global positioning signal. GPS is a satellite-based navigation system.
One use of it is to give directions when traveling.
To get to an address you don't know the directions to, you enter into GPS the address or place you want to
end up. Once you begin driving, the GPS will direct you to your final destination. Just follow the directions
and you will arrive where you want to be.
Input the wrong address into the GPS then take off on your trip. No matter how much you want to go to the
correct address, the GPS will take you to the wrong address. You can beg, cry, pray, and hope you will get
to the right address, but until you input the correct address, you will keep heading the wrong way.
That is easy to understand - anytime you've overridden the small voice that said, "Don't eat that entire pan
of brownies; it will ruin your diet" and ate all the brownies, you've been led by your carnal desires.
We are a spirit, we live in a body and we have a soul (mind, will, emotions). Just like the GPS can only take
us somewhere based on the information input into it, we are led by what we put in.
Fill up with wrong stuff and we'll end up where we don't want to be, doing what we didn't want to do. Too
much junk - worldly television, worldly books, worldly advice, worldly activities, or simply no Word and no
time with God - will cause us to go the wrong direction.
If we want the voice that said, "Don't eat those brownies" to be stronger than our desire to dive face first into
the chocolate, we have to spend more time with God than worldly things.
Galatians 5:16-17, Living Bible version, "I advise you to obey only the Holy Spirit's instructions. He will tell
you where to go and what to do, and then you won't always be doing the wrong things..."
By reading our Bible, spending time worshiping God, studying faith-based books, downloading sermons
from faith-based ministers - then DOING what we've read, we will then find ourselves consistently in the right
place at the right time, making the right choices!
Inspiration Copyright © 2008 Nan C Loyd
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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