As I was leaving San Angelo today, I pressed the Home button on my GPS. Now I know how to get home from San Angelo, but I love that my GPS will count down the mileage for me. As I did this, I began to think about how our culture, known for its Microwave comparison (we want everything as fast as possible), is also very much a GPS culture. There was a time where we would get out a map and plan our course. We would research the best routes to take and compare the mileage of alternates. Now, we push a button and the course is marked for us. Rarely is the provided route the most ideal, but hey, it’ll get you there and it takes little to no planning or thought. In my observation, this translates to our discipline in reading God’s Word. There was a time when Christians would study it and delve into it as they made their way through a life of faith in Christ. It seems; however, that pushing a button and letting someone else do the thinking for us has become the norm.
My challenge is that we would commit to getting the maps back out and dusting them off, to taking a “next step” in our time in God’s Word. If you’re currently reading the Bible once a week, commit to three times; if you’re at three, bump it up to five. Not in an effort to check things off of a to-do list, but to draw nearer to heart of God and to listen in on the route that He has mapped out for you. I know that this may sound like a chore, so I encourage you to pray for a hunger for His Word. We have an incredible journey ahead and pray that it would be a journey founded on and directed by the Word of God, for man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.
