Sometimes though your GPS is broken, unplugged, or out of juice. Without a guide, you are on your own out in the wild world of life. Susceptible to detours that lead you in the wrong direction. It can seem like an eternity before you find your way again.
Change often happens gradually. If you look at the growth of a plant with the human eye, hour by hour, you can't see much change. But if you chart it's growth over several weeks, months and years, you see bigger change. That's a lot like life. When I went through a change in my life a couple years ago, what people saw on the outside seemed as though it was sudden. But behind the scenes, changes were taking place. My heart was becoming overwhelmed. I was getting unplugged from my spiritual GPS and so eventually was out of juice. In other words, I lost my connection with God who could get me back where I needed to be. My focus was on my circumstances. I let my discontentment drive a wedge in me that alienated me from my close family and friends, and more importantly from God. As a result, BIG changes happened, but it started with subtle, not-so-easily-seen-with-the-human-eye, miniscule change.
The sort of change that took place in my life was not part of what God designed me for, but because I came back to him, He used what happened to design for me a new, full-of-potential, abundant life. A new path was created for me to get back on His road and back on His radar. What happened in my life and to those around me cannot be changed. They are forever imprinted on us. But what I've learned is that God is able to take the bad and ugly parts of our lives and make them into something beautiful again so that we are no longer defined by who we used to be, but by what we did with what happened and where our lives are going because of it.
A life recalculated for Him...that is a good change. Without God in my life, I can do nothing, life is fruitless. No matter how off track life gets, I know that God has me in His radar and will always lead me home!
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ..."
John 15:1-27 ESV
