Keeping on Track

When you want to go hiking in the wilderness and don’t want to get lost, you take a map and a compass. This helps you keep going in the right direction. Without a map and a compass, it’s easy to get lost. The map gives you the big picture and a compass will tell you what direction you are heading.

In this life we live, it’s easy to get off track. We are in a wilderness (the world) that unless we have the map and the compass, we will easily get off the correct path. The map is God’s Word (the Bible) and the compass is Christ.

As a map gives you the big picture, God’s Word gives you what you’ll need to live a fulfilled live in Christ. Just as a compass helps you keep track of your direction because it always points North, Christ is our point to determine our direction in our lives. Just as north never changes (it’s fixed), Christ never changes. He is the “Great I Am.”

Without staying in God’s Word, and keeping out eyes on Christ, this world will make it easy to get off track. Christ-followers who aren’t using the map and stop looking at the compass find themselves off the correct path. They have no clue that they are lost in the woods until they look at the map and see the compass and discover that aren’t even close. They use the map and the compass to find the right direction. This is great when they are back on the correct path but they loss time in their journey.

We should always make time to look at the map and keep our eyes on the compass to keep us going the right direction. God has given us His Word for instruction. Christ has given us Himself so we will always know the right direction to go. Don’t let the beauty of this world distract you from the true beauty of God.

Make time to read God’s Word and always keep your eyes on Christ. You will never go the wrong way as long as you have the map and the compass.