Wrong turns and Dead Ends

Your GPS is insistent that you turn left.  There is no street to turn left on; or it is one way; or it ends at the Syracuse Airport.  The GPS is certain it is right.  Not!

Walking the life of faith is never clearly marked and we are too facile at reprogramming our God Positioning System so that it leads where we want to go.  We turn a deaf ear to God's prompting to go a different way; we pay no attention to the insistent voice which says, "re-calculating" again and again.  Our arrival at a dead end is often a total surprise to us.

So it was for Israel.  Even their diligent attention to faithfulness involved turning a deaf ear to Jesus.  In the end, Jesus weeps over Jerusalem and their temple is left to them forsaken.  It was sad, but not the last word. (Luke 13.31ff)

The last word belongs to God and is revealed on Easter morn.  God was busy 're-calculating' for the sake of the world God loves.  Listen. Watch. Follow.