Keeping up to date

I nearly gave my sat nav a nervous breakdown this morning. i had to go to the traffic department in Malaga and, not being sure of the way, I decided to use my GPS. Only problem was, I also decided to drive into Malaga on the new motorway from Alhaurin and the sat nav simply couldn't work out what was going on.  For at least seven minutes on the motorway, the disembodied voice instructed me to "turn left, keep right, turn left, take the exit…" in utter confusion until I reached Malaga the back way and she found herself in familiar territory again. Guess I'm going to need to go online and update the sat nav if I want up to date maps!

I wrote in a previous post (click here to read) about how tuning in to God's voice is like driving with a GPS in your car. Today I couldn't help being reminded that a sat nav is only of maximum help if we keep it up to date. (I haven't done that so far, for the simple reason that updating the maps is basically the same cost as buying a new GPS.) One of the ways that we keep our "spiritual GPS" updated is by regularly reading God's written word, the Bible, as well as regularly listening to God's spoken word. That's part of the reason I'm working at the moment on the preparations for the 2014 Bible reading challenge. My faith goal is to motivate two thousand and fourteen young people to read their Bibles regularly in 2014. Today's young people are more in need than ever of spiritual GPS's that are regularly updated.

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