It’s my adopted grandma’s birthday party this weekend, and my brother had decided to attend. Heading out of the house to go pick him up at the airport, I set my Google Map for navigation and then started on my journey. About 20 minutes into driving, I was told to exit to a road I have never traveled before. Mind you, this is not the first time I would be going to George Bush Intercontinental Airport, but I’ve always used Google Map. Let me tell you, Geography wasn’t my fun subject in High school. Why can’t this map just take me on the route I have always traveled? The familiar one.
Filled with so much doubt, I decided to take a much familiar route than the one given to me by Google Map. Oh, boy boy, how I wish I had listened to the Map lady! Less than 10 minutes after taking the familiar road, I got stuck in traffic, with no other way of escape. If you live in Houston, you will know how terrible Houston traffic can get, and you would think that at nine o’clock in the morning traffic would be better. No, it was not! At least not on this “familiar” route I took! Now, frustrated and confused, I began to get cranky with every other vehicle around me, like it’s their fault I’m stuck in traffic. I did make it to my destination, but that was almost 30 minutes after my original estimated arrival time. Wonderful, not! Then I began to think, if I had listened and trusted the nice Google Map lady and followed the route she had directed me, no matter how unfamiliar it may seem, I would have been at my destination on time and not get into that horrific traffic.
Typically, most of us like the familiar. It’s safe and comfortable. Often times than none God takes us through this unfamiliar route, but for fear of the unknown, we decided to take the route that seems familiar to us. The route where we can easily control the outcome. But little do we know that the route that seems familiar to us is filled with most traffics and delays. Proverbs 14:12 says, “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death.” If we could learn to listen and trust that the route God is leading us, however unfamiliar it may seem, is the right and best route for us, believing that He knows what’s best for us. He is the God who sees the end right from the beginning. Isaiah 46:10 says, “Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.” Believe that whatever route He takes you He has been there and knows it’s the best for you. Trust His navigation instructions, and you won’t get lost or stuck in the traffic of life!
