keep right

This past weekend we drove up the I95 corridor, through Washington, D.C. and Baltimore and around Wilmington and Philadelphia to spend time with our daughter and her fiance.  We relied on my smart phone to get us to our destination.  All I had to do was enter the address and, in a matter of moments, the phone computed the navigation and initiated verbal directions for every turn.  I especially appreciated the guidance about the "next turn" or next exit  and distance to the next change.  And I marveled at the accuracy, where even the exact names on the exit signs were quoted (with a few interesting pronunciations of streets and towns).  I was a little surprised when the phone took us directly through Washington, D.C. instead of around the beltway but we decided to trust the "little black box" and it seemed to work just fine.  The analogy I'm thinking of is the navigation that is initiated when we enter Heaven as the destination to our personal "Life Phone".  The Holy Spirit becomes the voice and the "turn by turn" directions to our destination begin to flow.  We don't get the number of miles, or years, to the next turn but we can be confident that we will be directed (and sometimes pushed) when we need to make a course change.  And we can be confident that we will arrive.  By the way, you enter the address of Heaven by first acknowledging that you are lost and need directions.  And make sure that you make a right turn at the Cross.

Luke 1:⁷⁸ Because of God's tender mercy,

      the morning light from heaven is about to break upon us,
 ⁷⁹ to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
      and to guide us to the path of peace."