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I don’t know about you, but when I hear my portable GPS navigation unit saying that over and over, I get really tired of it. Sometimes it is right on the money because I didn’t turn when I should have. Other times, even if I know I are on the right track, and can see the destination, if it’s not the way that the GPS thinks it should be, it will yell at me. My recent visit to Airzona reminded me of how much this gets under my skin. Why three right turns when one left turn would do the same thing? Why tell me to go 200 more feet and turn left when I’m in the parking lot of the place to which I wanted to drive?
That set me to thinking about how God often looks at us. He has created a GPS for us - in the form of the inspired Word of God. We go about our daily lives and, even if we try hard to follow the things we know God wants, we often end up on the wrong path. We think we know what’s right, but sometimes it’s only close, and other times it’s WAY OFF THE MARK! I often find myself too far off the mark to even think I can ever get back.
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That’s what I would expect from God if he were audibly speaking to me throughout my day. I’m sure I’d hear that A LOT!
Think about the times we know of that the God of the Ages has “recalculated” for our benefit. In the Garden of Eden, God had a perfect plan - perfect, except for that little thing called free will. Adam and Eve took it upon themselves to do what God had specifically told them not to do. And they got caught.
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When things got so bad that God considered wiping it all out and starting over, one faithful soul listened to God and built an ark for his family and animals. God made a plan to save Noah and his family from judgement. In essence, God was
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God promised to never wipe out the world like that again, but that didn’t mean that people did not still sin. God chose Abraham to raise up a nation, then provided guidelines for them through Moses, which created a way for them to be acceptable despite their sin. But people, because of who they inherently are, continued down that same path that started in the Garden.
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God then made one more way to redeem us - to make us acceptable in God’s eyes. He sent His only Son to live a perfect life and then die for us - in our place. We can now become as his adopted children, simply by believing in Jesus as the Christ and the Messiah. As Jesus said on the Cross, “It is Finished.” No more
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