Isaiah 30: 21:  “And your ears will hear a word behind you. This is the way, walk in it.”  Today, we could hardly live without GPS or Global Positioning Satellite to get us to where we are going.  Almost every new car has GPS.  In fact, I will not buy a car without it.  Trains, trucks, ships and airplanes use GPS and feed its information into onboard computers in order to safely reach their destinations.  GPS has allowed technology to develop driverless cars.  I don’t know about you, but I’m still not ready to ride in one.   If you do not have an onboard GPS, you simply use the GPS system in your smart phone.  Hunters use GPS instead of a compass.  My Garmin running watch has GPS to tell me where I am, how far I have run and how many minutes and what pace I have run.  It even tells me how many calories I have burned and how my heart has reacted.  We used to look at a map when we were going somewhere and asked for landmarks along the way to get to the address.  Today, we all use GPS for these and many more applications.

Leaders must trust and use another GPS system to lead their lives and others to the destinations ahead.  This GPS does not stand for Global Positions Satellite, but for God’s Positioning Spirit.  Through God’s Word and His Spirit speaking a word behind us, we hear, “This is the way, walk in it.”  It is like the GPS in our car or phone in one sense.  It tells us the route, the turns, stops, streets and directions to lead us and those whom we lead to the destination we are seeking.  If we take a wrong turn, we will hear the words emanating from the GPS, “recalculating,” and give us a new corrected route.  If we hear and heed the instructions, we will find the way and get to our destination.  I often get frustrated with the GPS in my wife’s car as it will instruct me to go down small crooked roads and not the best road to my destination.  This is what the world does to us as spiritual leaders.  God’s Positioning Spirit will never do this and his path is always straight and correct and will never take us down the wrong road.  When we obediently follow God’s Positioning Spirit, we will hear the words, “You have arrived at your destination.”  Which GPS is leading your life?