GPS: God Positioning System | Psalm 25:4–10

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Mail Bags comes in today from Elizabeth.

Hy Elizabeth H.

And she asked this question, if you could ask God

one silly question, what would it be.

Oh, that's a good question, Elizabeth. One Does it say

only one? It says only one?

Yes, it says if you could ask God one silly

question because I have several?

Do you have several?

I have several silly questions. Okay, like did Adam and

Eve have a belly button?

Yeah, that's a good question, right, Yeah, because they didn't

have a bilical cord. Yeah, they didn't need an ubilical court,

so maybe they didn't have belly but yeah, so big question.

That's a big one, big one.

It's silly.

Yeah, I'm One of my questions that I'm always asking

is if nothing sticks to teflon, how does teflon stick

to the pand hm?

That's pretty good.

That's it's like magic.

It's a big one. Yeah, I have one. I have one.

Uh is there a color in heaven that does exist

on Earth?

Because think about it, think about it.

I don't know if that's silly, that's a good question.

No, think about this.

Every single thing that you try to imagine is in

the colors that you only know. But what if there

was a color and if you try to imagine it

right now, you actually can't do it.

Because everything you know, so we already know that there

are colors outside of our spectrum of sight. What there's

all kinds of things out we have a very narrow

so all color is right on a wave that comes

back to you. It's a reflection back to you. Yes,

And that there are things outside of what you can

see that animals can see and other bugs can see, pheromones,

stuff like that. They can see stuff we can't see.

And they can see colors we can't see.

But are they different colors or they're just a combination

of our color.

Power since we can't see them, I'm not sure we can.

Know which means I'm not sure I believe that claim.

Well, the spectrum, it's a spectrum, right, So so sounds

that you can't hear, it turns out are different than

the sounds you can hear. I think colors you can't

see turns out to be different than the colors you

can see.

I think animals see the same colors as we do.

Don't We don't know. Okay, Remember the predator.

I think we do know.

Remember the predator and.

Predator too he changed his heat vision to all these

different types of visions. Not like that, okay, But but

my point is is that they were still all colors

that we could see. You know why, because we can't

make movies without the colors that we can see we can't.

But it's only for us. We're not making movies for them.

Animals don't see different colors.

They do, they don't, they do so, and there's all

kinds of it's it's a spectrum. And so because of

that we we have a very narrow version of very

narrow range within the heart. What other silly question, where

do all the socks go in the wash in the dryer? Like,

is there a sock heaven? Where do they go?

Yeah? I don't know.

I have another one. Why does buttered toast always land

on the floor on the butter side.

That's a good one.

This yeah, this is a I got a bunch of them.

I got so many that just bother me.

Okay, here's it's not silly. It is kind of silly.

But we're dinosaurs on the arc.

Uh yeah yeah, probably.

Yeah they could have been baby They could have been

babies or eggs or eggs. Well, God brought the animals

to know. I don't think the eggs could have rolled.

Probably baby dinosaurs.

Okay. He could have asked them to behave, behave.

Yeah, wow, go to Noah and behave.

Okay, that's a good one. Do you have another one.

I think, I.

Think you know there's there's this question. Ready, Hey, God,

can you create a boulder so large that.

You can't move it? Yeah?

That's a that's a fallacy loop, right, Yes, yeah, that's

a hard one. I've thought on several occasions about that

that of course he can, but he won't. He can

do anything he wants to do. Yeah, but then if

he wants to lift it, he can lift it.

Right.

But so the question isn't can you lift a boulder

you create that you can't lift. That's not the question.

The question is can you create a boulder so big

you can't lift it? Yes, but then if he wants

to lift it, he can lift it.

Well, then that means he can't create one that he

can't lift.

Sure, he can you do anything he wants.

Oh, I see, I see what you're saying.

You're saying he could do that and he could do

the other exactly right.

Right. What you're trying to do is you're trying to

put him in a linear situation, and he's not stuck

in the linear time.

Brame, I got you, I got you. Yeah that's funny.

So yeah, yeah, those are those are good?

Anything else man, No, I don't have. I have I

have so many of those weird things like that, why

did he make mosquitos? Well, yeahs make me mad? Yeah,

that's right. Like of all the things if I could change, well,

there's a lot of big things that would change. Yeah,

but one of the biggest things I would change is mosquitoes.

Just get rid of moskuit give it the mosquitos. Just

have them, you know, drink sap or something or water, yeah,

drinking blood.

Well, you know, without mosquitos, we never would would have

been able to have Jurassic Park.

This is true. That's true.

Yeah, yeah, uh and and uh, you know there's other

like Bible questions that I have for sure.

What kind of Bible questions do you have?

Like what was Paul's thorn in the flesh?

Mm?

Like because he doesn't tell.

Us it was his podcast host co host.

Yeah. And then here's another question, did the prodigal Sun.

That was a joke? You didn't even smile at that?

Oh, I wasn't listening. I was thinking of another question.

Case and point. What did you say? What did you

with his podcast co host? Oh?

That is casing point. That is casoon point that.

It's hard to do this job. If you're not listening, man,

you know what, I was trying to.

Think of another question, and that was actually really funny. Yeah, okay, Oh,

you know what I should have said. If I was listening,

Here's what I would have said. I would have said,

that's right, Jeff, it was.

That probably was it.

Yeah, I would directed it back to you.

Okay, all right, that's enough.

So if you I.

Don't even know where we were going with that, No,

it was it.

Was silly questions. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So listen.

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The reason why I was saying that it seemed like

I couldn't even figure out where we were going, it's

because David wrote a prayer about the fact that you

never got.

That was your transition.

There you go, there you is okay. So in Psalm

chapter twenty five, David writes, this is kind of a

God's GPS for my life, kind of a prayer. God,

just show me your will, show me what I'm supposed

to do. And so in Psalm chapter twenty five, what

verses are we reading for four through four through ten? Yes,

and my phonus stuck man. Okay four through ten, It says,

show me the right path, Oh Lord, point out the

road for me to follow. Lead me by your truth

and teach me. For you are the God who saves me.

All day long. I put my hope in you. Remember,

oh Lord, your compassion and unfailing love, which you've shown

from long ages past. Do not remember the rebellious sins

of my youth. Remember me in the light of your

unfailing love, for you are merciful, Oh Lord. The Lord

is good and does what is right. He shows the

proper path to those who go astray. He leads the

humble and doing right, teaching them his way. The Lord

leads with unfailing love and faithfulness all who keep his

covenant and obey his commands. Well, there you go.

There it is so we're talking about God's showing us

the way. And uh so, I mean how often do

we pray God show us the way?

It's just about every major decision. Yeah that exists right now.

Uh, let me ask you this, this, this brings up

a pretty good question. Have you ever had a conversation

with anybody in the past where they believe there's only

one perfect will and there and they have a little

bit of a fear like like like they say they say, well,

I don't know if I want to marry this person

because I know that there's only one perfect will and

or or I don't know if I don't know if

I should choose the school to go to because there's

only one perfect will or or whatever it is, and

and uh and they're always constantly wondering about, uh, you know,

if I'm in God's perfect will because it seems like

there's only one right.

Yes, Yeah, I think a lot of people have a

very linear view of God's will, that there's a HASTI

lead to be hastily to see God only has one

plan and there's only one path for your life. And

I don't believe that. I think if that's why it was,

Jesus would have explained it that way. I think the

Bible would have explained it that way. It just doesn't

doesn't say that. So it does say we've already read

this week. A couple days ago we read where David said,

you knew all the days of my life before I

was ever born. Right, But that's less about God prescribing

precisely what would happen, as opposed to God knowing what

will happen. That's right, that's right, right, And so I

think that you navigate to your life. God's made it

really clear in scripture. Love God with all your heart,

all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.

God wants us to love our neighbor as our self.

God wants us to seek his kingdom and his righteousness

and all these other things to be added to us.

God wants us to lean on him and his word,

and it'll be a light to our path as we're going.

The Bible says that delight yourself and the Lord, and

he will give you the desires of your heart. And

we know that in Hebrew there's kind of a double

entendre there. He'll give you the right desires and then

he'll give those to you. Right, it's both ways, but

it's like, do you want the blue one or the

red one? There's not a God's will isn't involved in

the blue or the red necessarily, it's what do you want?

As long as you're honoring God, you can have you

the one that's right, right, as long as you're seeking

Him first. You can have you the one as long

as you love God and love people and you're not

taking advantage of anybody. If it's just a neutral decision,

you can have either one. Yeah, and so God, but

God knows which one you're going to do, and he

has a plan based on that.

Now, I do believe that there are times where God

will impress upon us and tell us it's the red one. Right,

So there could be a thing where you think it

you think it choice is linear, and you think or

you know or you know it's optional, and then God

will say, clearly, this is the right choice.

Right.

So God impresses upon us all the time.

Yeah, but those are supernatural moments in our life, that's.

Right, Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, Because you know there are times where you know,

I'll be you know, praying between two things, or even thinking,

not even praying necessarily, you know, thinking like, oh, these

are the two options because it doesn't, in my mind,

require prayer. And it's like, this isn't a big deal.

I can choose you to one of these things. And

then all of a sudden, I feel like God impresses

upon me and says, this is the this is what

I want you to do. Right, and then you all

of a sudden you're like, oh, out of nowhere, I

sort of feel like God is telling me this, right,

you know, make this phone call or choose this person.

You know I've done that.

It's simple. It's as simple as this, right. I remember

thinking recently who to grab and take the lunch and

I remember thinking like, I'm in the mood to go

to lunch with somebody, and I have an agenda to

go to lunch with a lot of staff members just

because I want to spend time with them, connect with them,

et cetera, et cetera. And I remember thinking, Oh, this

guy's available. He looks like he's working at his desk.

This guy's available. I'm gonna go ask one of those.

And I felt like God was saying ask that person.

And I was like, oh, I thought that was a choice,

that was no big deal, but I felt like it

was that person, and I was like, Okay, I don't

know why, but I feel like this is the right

move to make.

And I did.

And turns out that was definitely the right move to make,

because the conversation that unfolded.

Was like, oh now I see what God is doing.

Right, was this conversation was meant to happen in this

particular moment.

So the Book of James tells us that if we

lack wisdom, ask from God. Ask God, and He'll give

to us generously. Right, and so all the time, I

would say, be praying for wisdom, be praying for discernment.

Solomon says, wisdom is the principal thing. So with all

the things that you're getting your life, make sure you

get lots of wisdom. It's the core of being able

to live a life that avoids a lot of the pitfalls.

And we know the fear of the Lord is a

beginning of wisdom. So David writes in Someone nineteen that

God's he talks about this unlimited amount of wisdom that

comes from God's words, and so you know, God's word

is a light under our path, he says. His son

Solomon says, trust in the Lord with all your heart.

Lean not onto your own understanding, but in all your ways,

acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths. So I'm

constantly praying God give me wisdom and discernment in my

everyday decisions. I'm constantly leaning on Him, saying, I don't

want to make a dumb choice. So if it's a

frivolous choice, do I want a black pickup truck or

a gray pickup truck? Hey, which one's going to give

you the best deal?

Right?

That kind of thing. But when it comes to people,

people matter. So many other things matter, And I'm not

saying the black versus a great pickup truck don't matter.

Maybe they do. But I think that if you're constantly

leaning on the Lord's making first, his kingdom, his righteousness,

all these other things will be added to you. So

you don't have to worry about your decisions if you're

just constantly pursuing God.

Right, I think lovely regard with our heart, soul, mind,

and strength. You can do that at this university or

this university. So the location isn't necessarily the important thing.

The important thing is You're in God's will in either

one of those places. My placing your life in God's hands?

Right? Right? Yeah? Yeah, So then the measure would be

is it moral? Is it ethical? Is it biblical? Right?

Is it legal? Right? So, if you've got those kind

of four those four areas, is it biblical? Is it moral?

Is it ethical? Is it legal? If you're kind of

in the right place there? And am I taking advantage

of anybody? Is it based off out of love? Right?

Am I being humble? God opposes the pride, but he

gives grace to the humble. I think there's a few

of those questions we can ask ourselves. Does this align

with what the character of who Jesus is? I'll sometimes

ask myself, can I imagine Jesus doing something like this

if he was walking around right now in twenty twenty five?

If I can, then I think I can confidently just

make that decision. It's okay. And trust. If you're constantly

walking with God and you're always in his word, then

you can trust that He's going to guide you to

do the right thing. Now if his word says don't,

you can't blame the Holy Spirit saying I just really

felt a lot of peace about it. Right. How many

times have we had people say, oh, praise the Lord God,

you know, help me get rid of my old spouse,

and I got a new spouse. It's so wonderful, right,

God answered all my prayers. He led me to do it.

I felt so much peace about it. And clearly the

Bible doesn't give us permission to do that. So God's

not going to go against his own words. But if

it's in alignment with his word, and it's moral and ethical, legal,

and it doesn't hurt other people, then I think now

we're just looking for God, what's most advantageous to your

mission and to my life. That's all I'm looking for

at that point. Everything else is set aside. Now I'm

just looking God, what's most vintageous to your mission in

my life? Help me to make the right choice there.

And then if he still doesn't like whisper froc happen,

I think you can make your own choice. Yeah.

The only uh, I don't know why, I'm I'm impressed

to say this, but the only exception. I never recommend divorce.

That's not a recommendation that I go down the road

and recommend. But I do recommend people in an abusive

situation to.

Get safe, right, Yes, be safe? Yeah, be safe.

So so I don't know why I felt pressed to

say that, So I just didn't want anybody on the

other end to hear it that way.

So we're not talking to you if you're on.

The other end and you're in an abusive situation, we're

not saying there's no room for safety. There's there's definitely

room for safety. So get out and get safe in

that situation. So well, here another thing is, you know

God always says that He's going to light our paths.

How about that, right, So think about the first century. Uh,

they didn't have flashlights.

Right.

And by the way, this is written way before the

first century Psalms when more Palms.

Written ah man a thousand years before Jesus.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, look it up.

Yeah, fourteen hundred years before Jesus something like that.

So so back then they they would have had you know,

candles fire, that's really about it. Lanterns and uh and

so yeah, so oil burning oil and uh and so

the difference between you know, you know, a candle back

then just like torches. Think about how much more valuable

the concept was, you know, and how intentional they had

to be. Right now for us, we're like, oh, just

pull out our phones, right, we don't.

Have to even think about light and darkness.

But back then, you did not go on a journey

if you knew the sun was going to go down

right without being extremely intentional, and and not to mention

you know, snakes and wilder and I mean all these

different you know, dangers that come with the night as well.

So you know, the idea of like light and dark

onto a path to show you know where you need

to go is just that much more critical, I guess,

is what I'm saying. And so God says, I'm not

just going to show you the path. I'm going to

light the way and light the way it means. I'm

going to keep you from danger. Light the way it means.

I'm going to make it to where you're able to

walk the path right with confidence, without hesitation, without fear.

You know, all those things are implied with the light.

So David was between a thousand BC and nine nine

fifty BC, right, and there is when he wrote most

of them. So, yeah, right at that thousand years before Jesus,

you nailed it.

He doubted yourself, He said fourteen hundred, but you said thousands.

First instincts. Yeah, I went, I went backwards because of

trying to think through how far was he from Moses? Yeah,

it was my problem.

Yeah, so that's fun. And so yeah, I think that

the lighting and then the path, I mean that was

basically David's prayer.

So the application then is how often do we pray

for God's will when we should have but we don't

because there's a lot of people I think that listen

that include myself included. I think where there are times

where it's like I should pray about that. Yes, first

before I say to myself, I know the right answer.

So I pulled up some verses. I thought that this

would be useful. As we're talking David here, his instinct

is God showed me the right path. I want to

do the right thing. I don't want to do the

wrong thing. I think that growing maturing Christians, that should

be a part of our prayer all the time. So

I looked up other places. Psalm thirty two, the Lord

says in verse eight. Psalm thirty two eight, the Lord says,

I will guide you along the best pathway for your life.

I will advise you and watch over you. Right isn'

They're great? Proverbs three five and six. I've already said this.

But trust in the Lord with all your heart, and

lean not on your own understanding and all your ways.

Submit to him, and he will make your path straight

right Isaiah, chapter thirty, verse twenty one. Whether you turn

to the right or to the left, your ears will

hear a voice behind you saying, this is the way,

walk in it right, and that great one, that's great

Some one nineteen one oh five the verse you quoted,

your word is a lamp from my feet and a

light on my path. We just read Psalm twenty five,

four and five. But Jesus says, and this is it

right here, Jesus answered, I am the Way, the Truth,

and the Life. No one comes to the Father except

through me. So when you're not sure what to do,

what would Jesus do? It's the best question. It's kind

of a joke, WWJD. What would Jesus do? But the

reality is that's the best measure. If you're not sure

what else do? What can you imagine Jesus doing in

this time, in this timeframe. And this is one of

the reasons why I hid it all the time. Hey, Jesus,

walk in the power of the Holy Spirit. As a man,

and so if he could, so can we we can

get guidance from the Holy Spirit, we could do the

right thing. And God's always going to show us through

his words when we're not sure. Can we just imagine Jesus,

you know, punching that guy in the nose. Can we

imagine Jesus, you know, cheating on his spouse. Can we

imagine Jesus, you know, cussing somebody out at the counter.

Can we imagine Jesus right, Or on the other hand,

can we imagine Jesus helping that person? Can we imagine

Jesus showing compassion when everybody else is mocking them? Right?

So there's a if you can see Jesus is the way. Now,

I understand he's saying he's the way to God, but

he says I'm also the life. And I understand he's

talking about eternal life, he's also talking about this life. God.

Jesus doesn't minimize this life while he also maxismides the other.

So there's kind of two sides to all these on

the way, the truth and the life. And he's our

truth for today even while he's the truth for eternity,

he's our life for today. Even while he's our life

for eternity, he's our way for today, even while he's

our way into eternity. And so I think that when

you take all the rest of the passions in scripture

that show how God shows us the way. Yeah, proverbs

say a man devises us his way, but the Lord

directs his footsteps. Right, that's it. And what is the

direction for a godly person? The same direction Jesus went.

That's what he asked his disciples to do. Just follow me.

That was it. And it's not as complicated and mystical

as people want to make it. God's not looking at

Oh no, they're having fun, right, God's not upset at

you if you're trying to seek Him with all of

your heart. Right.

So that's great. Well, hey, that's a great place to end.

And so hopefully we will see you tomorrow on the

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