GPS

O satisfy us, Vance and Bethyl Joy, with Your mercy and loving-kindness in the morning (now, before we are older), that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Psalm 90:14


We’ve been gently and persistently wakened in the morning by the birds outside our windows—welcoming us to the Ullswater area, a northern part of The Lake District. We’ve heard we are experiencing of sun and warm weather that “shouldn’t be so.” We thank God for His “most warm welcome!” Teach us to number our days that we may get us a heart of wisdom Psalm 90:12. Father, teach me today to consciously choose to receive the beauty and delightfulness and favor of the Lord our God upon us; confirm and establish the work of our hands-yes, the work of our hands, confirm and establish it. Psalm 90:17.

We’ve given these days into His will—His GPS (God’s Perfect Scheme)! When we are off course, the blue bubble is not on the purple line. Vance’s I-Phone GPS has worked poorly for several weeks—and it proved no different in the UK. Frustrating ourselves in an unsuccessful attempt to locate a car dealer just after leaving the Manchester Airport, we were lost. We opted to set that seemingly impetuous agenda aside, get on the motorway and head north to The Lake District. The GPS worked well in our recalibrated direction—and we realized our well-thought out agenda was not HIS timing.

… my head spins with the “leaving” but also the clarity that “what door/window God opens…no one can shut!” “And, what door/window God closes…no one can open!” We are walking these unmarked paths with our invisible Savior on an invisible path of faith – and watching the visible respond to His will. I’m overwhelmed with His intentional Presence. Grateful that when He shuts the door, “safe am I…safe am I in the hollow of His Hand…”