God's Gps

The same goes for having fun, the job or anything else in this life. All of these are important, but none are more important than keeping Jesus in your life and keeping love alive in your family and home. Why work hard if there’s no one to enjoy the fruits of your labor with? What’s more important – things or people? You can replace things, but you can never replace the friends and family that are lost forever. That’s why you must keep your priorities straight. God’s GPS only works properly when your priorities are right.

Hebrews 11:11-12, "Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable."

Does this tell you anything about God’s promises to you? I’ll tell you what it says to me. God’s promises cannot fail. He will make a way where there seems to be no way. There’s nothing impossible for Him to do. Even when your strength is gone, He is still Almighty, Omnipotent God. All it takes is faithfulness and obedience, allowing God’s GPS to guide us, and we can’t fail.

You might feel like you aren’t accomplishing anything for God, but just stop and take a look around you. How many people are here because of you; not just in this church, but in this life? How many people have a chance to inherit the promise because you brought them into this world either naturally or spiritually? None of us know the full import of this question. We never know who is watching us while we live for Jesus. We never know who those we reached will also reach. The tree of influence that your life has is always increasing and just perhaps the day will come when those who spring from your life and ministry will be like the stars in the sky or the sand on the seashore.

Pat and I have ministered to literally hundreds of people, both young and old, through the years. Sometimes it seems that we just aren’t accomplishing much. But then I stop and think of all those who have left us to go and minister as God’s GPS led them into other areas of ministry. Some today are youth pastors, leading thousands of young people to Christ and establishing leaders who will also do the same thing. Some are pastors leading congregations. Some are missionaries on foreign fields. Some are evangelists, preachers and teachers influencing lives of countless numbers of other people. How far has our tree grown? It has grown so large that I can no longer see the ends of the branches and it continues to expand every day. Only God knows how many stars are there, or how many grains of sand we have influenced into the kingdom of God either personally or by proxy through others that we have influenced.

How many will come to Christ through you in the same manner? How many people in this life will say that they are glad you were a part of their lives because you made a difference for them?