GPS Confusion, Who do you blame? Life Direction

The man who pastors our Spanish church also drives a truck for his fulltime job. He, like us, hopes the ministry will become able to support his fulltime pastoral focus in the near future. He was preaching Sunday night and remarked that there are two women in his life that tell him what to do – in limited application. Those females are his wife and “Mary”. Mary happens to be the name he has given to his GPS (Global Positioning System) because it directs him in a woman’s voice.
While he trusts his wife for direction in many areas of his life, he has lost a lot of confidence in Mary. “Mary,” he says, “has gotten me into some rough places, taking me in routes that she should have known better; down one-way streets, through narrow streets and most recently under a bridge too low to let the truck pass through.”
He says he spent one hour stuck under a low bridge. He was only fractions of an inch from being clear of the bridge and with the help of two police officers, he let the air out of his tires and finally cleared the opening. The officers did not even ticket him for the incident which is unusually kind for this area. I guess those officers know what is like to be misled by a female voice.
I know we, my wife and I, rely on our GPS when we are traveling any new route. And I have to admit that it is fun to operate, checking out the local attractions, restaurants, and other points of interest. We find things we could never have seen otherwise; things that cannot be seen from the highway, things that are not listed on the exit signs.
But the GPS systems are not always right and the routes they seek to take you are not always the best routes. But like most things in life, as you gain experience in a geographic location, you can find shortcuts, back streets and less often traveled thoroughfares that can get you to a destination faster or simply help you avoid a traffic jam. The GPS is not good with secondary routes; in fact it discourages the user from even attempting an alternate route until it runs out of “Recalculating” options at which point it will finally figure out what you are trying to do.
So the question is, “If you get lost, whose fault is it?”
I have found that if I give the GPS a known destination, it will always find a route to that destination. If I really don’t know where I am going it is not the fault of either the programming or the operating system of the electronics working behind the scenes in the GPS.
I should know where I want to go before I ask for help getting there.
The tragedy is, more often than not, that decision is what we need the most help with. For those difficult life directing decisions I refer to the Holy GPS (God Positioning System), the Bible. It may not be as easy to use, but give it a chance. After all, it has a built in instruction manual, no updates are necessary, and the developer still takes great interest in His Creation.