I don’t know if you’ve ever gone on an adventure. We like to go on adventures in our home. Many adventures you go on require the ability to navigate where you are going. If you really want to navigate the way you are to go, you need a map. A map is going to help you get your bearings straight and figure out where you are at. And every map has two important things—a legend and a compass. A legend helps you figure out what’s on the map—it helps you interpret what’s there and give you the scale—how close or far the map is zoomed in—how many inches on the map equals a mile etc. A compass is the thing that tells you what direction is north. You need these things to navigate a map. I personally love maps. I like to see them and read them. One adventure my wife and I have embarked on is running marathons. We’ve each done several marathons and ultra-marathons, but I got the nickname in our family of “the cartographer”, because whenever I would spectate one of my wife’s marathons, I would make a life size map of the marathon route. I would make this big large map of the race route and I would map out where the best spots to spectate would be. And I would see her a lot—usually I could get to see her every 3 miles or so because I had everything mapped out just right. If you’re going to navigate on an adventure, you need to know how to navigate a map.
It’s the same way in our spiritual lives. The spiritual life is like a journey. God’s Word the Bible is a map, but we need to navigate the map. What helps us navigate the map on the journey of life? Faith. Faith is what sees us through the journey of life. Too often however, as believers, we don’t live by faith. We want to live by feelings; we want to live based on the things around us.
What’s going to make the difference? What is it that’s going to see you through the journey of life? Faith. Faith will see us through the journey of life
