Well, I've finally joined the club! After many years of total dependence, when travelling, on my "wife-nav" (i.e. my wife with a good old-fashioned road map on her lap), I have purchased a proper SatNav! It was the experience of driving home last year, without aforementioned wife, from the eastern side of France, that finally convinced me that I should "take the plunge". Having said that, we have already decided that we will have the old-fashioned back-up with us as well. We've heard too many tales of people ending up in narrow country roads, unable to make a turn - not the sort of situation in which we want to find ourselves, in the middle of France, with twenty-seven feet of caravan hitched to the tow-bar!
So far, however, I am quite pleased with "Charmaine" (it's a female voice, and the make is Garmin, which rhymes with "charmin'", leading to the now designated name!!!). We do, we have discovered, have to keep an eye on her. She seems to be programmed to avoid motorways - and in the UK we use them a lot! We are assuming that, when we download the manual, and read it through, we will be able to make the necessary changes!
The first thing that I am asked, when I have switched the power on is my destination. That seems, to me, to be an eminently sensible request. A SatNav, or a map, is useless unless you first know where you are, and then, where you're going. Okay, so the SatNav is a wee bit cleverer, and quickly informs me as to my current location!
Life is often likened to a journey. Sadly, it would appear, many people don't know where they are, or where they're going! They're just drifting through life on the river of routine; wasting their lives on that which is, ultimately, worthless; existing, rather than enjoying a life that is positively full. However, there is one thing that is certain, and that is that we are, each o us, going to go somewhere in the end - even if we just casually canter along life's pathway. It begs the questions: "Where are you going; and how will you get there?"
The message of the Christian Gospel (the Good News) is, of course, that Almighty God, the Creator and Sustainer of all that is, has a plan for each one of us. His desire is that every individual spend eternity (and that is not endless time, but timelessness!) in His presence in that dimension that we usually refer to as 'heaven'. However, He loves us so much that He has given us the freedom to choose our own destiny - to be with Him, or to be without Him. That's a choice that we must make in this life - it's too late to make it after that experience that we call physical death.
Wherever you are on life's journey, I would encourage you to consider Jesus (God the Son) and the life He offers you - life "... in all its fulness" (John 10:10; NEB). If you come to Him, confessing your own sinfulness, He has promised that He will forgive you, and take loving control of your life - giving you a brand new start along life's road.
You will then be on a journey that has a purpose, and that will last for eternity. Now that's Good News!
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