What if Jesus were our satnav?

Anyone who has been on a car journey with me will know that me and directions are a recipe for some sort of disaster.

I'm the sort of person who has to know precisely where they're going (due to having driven the journey plenty of times previously) or clings helplessly to their satnav (and still manages to screw up).

Direction in life is a funny thing (though I don't mean laugh out loud funny).

Again, if you know me, I'm quite (?!) an organised, logical person. I have to know where I'm going on the roads but also in the course of life.

Throughout school I worked my butt off to get good grades with the ultimate goal of going to a really good-looking-to-other-people university, on a flipping good course before going straight into employment and working up that ladder - to money, lots of dosh. That was the direction for my life. 

But then came the spanner in the works. Or should I say the "light in the darkness"; Jesus. I came into (and am still journeying in) relationship with him. 

I'm trying on a daily basis to give Jesus control. 
The aim is to plug him in as my satnav and follow his direction one step at a time. Jesus as satnav - now that sounds like an adventure to me!

"For whoever wants to save his life will lose it..." (Matthew 16:25a NLT)

I'm not saying it's an easy road following this fella 'Jesus'. He's birthed in me a dream and a vision but I don't have a clue as to how I'm going to get there (well I do have some ideas), I don't know where I'm going to end up - but the joy, the adventure and the excitement are in the journey. 

And I am absolutely buzzing for what he has planned for my life and in the lives of those around me who are surrendering to his will. What could be more exciting than living out your unique, true purpose and calling in life?

Now there's also the danger of becoming static with fear. How do we get to our destination if we turn off the car engine? The satnav can't do anything. The 'magic' of satnavs is that even if we take a wrong turning, they automatically reroute. But we have to make the choice to give Jesus the power to be our satnav and surrender to him, only then will he reroute our lives. 

"In all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight..." (Proverbs 3:6 NLT)

It's ok not to be in control. It's ok to hand over the directions to someone who, to put it bluntly, knows way better than we do, because as humans we're limited beings. 

"...but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it." (Matthew 16:25b NLT)

Its taking the signpost off "me" and pointing it to the one who has the fuller plan for every single life.

"For I know the plans I have for you, says The Lord, plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a hope and a future." (Jeremiah 29:11 NLT)

I'll keep you posted