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I'm very proud of the fact that I have latest technology in my car. It gives me great comfort
to know that I can be guided by one of the 32 satellites, 12,500 miles in the air, so
that one of them always has me in view.
Of course, I have to admit that I don't have the foggiest idea on how to use the stupid
thing, but still it comforts me to know that it's there. So much for the GPS.
But what it did make me think about and gave me no end of comfort, is the fact that God
has His eye upon me at all times and in all places. And He always does it without sending
a bill.
Isaiah tells us that God sits upon the circle. Isaiah 40:22 That's remarkable because, when
God told Isaiah that 2000 years ago, over at "Harvard and Yale" — the center of all
man's wisdom — they were teaching that the world was both flat and square. But that's
the way it always is — people close to God know more than a PhD knows without God.
So we knew that at the time Saint Paul put it, The foolishness of God is wiser than men.
1 Corinthians 1:25 And furthermore, God's GPS is so much more reliable than man's. All
it takes is one of man's satellites to malfunction, and lo and behold we're left in the dark.
But that's man's record — totally unreliable.
Isaiah tells us that the Lord shall guide thee continually. Isaiah 58:11
The Lord will never fail us. Hebrews 13:5
And He will never slumber nor sleep. Psalm 121:3
So what does all this mean to us today? For one thing, it means that since God can see
us at all times, that He knows when we have some special need. There are times when we
feel alone, that no understands or even cares. But that wonderful God, the Father of those
who love His Son, watches over us. He knows when we hurt. All the inward pain that no
one sees, God sees and God cares.
Saint Peter put it this way: "Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you."
1 Peter 5:7
The writer to the Hebrews makes it like this: "For we have not an high priest which cannot
be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are,
yet without sin." Hebrews 4:15
How often have you seen someone suffering, have prayed for them and felt for them? But
the fact is that we cannot really feel for anyone, we cannot fully enter into their sorrow
unless we've experienced it ourself.
When a child or a spouse is taken from us, there is just no way we can fully empathize
with others unless we have gone through it ourselves.
So the loving, caring Jesus was tried in all points as we are, so He knows. He was there
long before we got there.
I don't know about that stupid GPS in my car or how it works. Nor do I really care, because
I've experienced the presence of Christ in my sorrow and been comforted.
Man can mickey-mouse around with trivial things like GPSs, but the great things are known
only to God.