The Divine Crash

Today I bought one of these for my kids.  It is a device that attaches to their clothes and the other end is on my keys.  What happens is if they get more than 25 feet away it starts beeping and if I press a button on the key-chain it starts beeping.  Essentially it is a homing beacon for my children.  If they are kidnapped or just wander away looking at toys this will tell me and alert me that my child is getting far away from me. (If you click the picture it will take you to a link where you can buy one for your children.)

I wish God had one of these for me.Sometimes, even as a pastor, I wish that God would tell me when my faith is getting away from me.  Something that would beep at 90+ decibles when I forget my quiet time or if I pressed a button it would automatically locate where God is for me.

If I am honest with myself too often I think I know exactly what God is thinking and it turns out that I have simply wandered off from the presence of God and now I’m lost in a store looking at things that will only give a temporary treasure.

If I’m, even more, honest with myself I would admit that sometimes my faith is stolen from me.  Things come out of the blue when I am not paying attention and take me away from the goodness of God and take me places I don’t want to go.

In both those situations, it would be very helpful to have something that I can fasten to me will start incessantly beeping at me until I am back in range of God.

I wonder if this is what Jesus means by the Holy Spirit will help/guide us?  Maybe that little beep has been inside us from the beginning and I simply need to listen for it better than I do now?

Is it simply more prayer? More Bible reading? More church? More time in silence? Or is it about allowing myself to be guided by someone else?  Because the truth is I would prefer to do whatever I want instead of listening to some beeps from the Holy Spirit.  But maybe this is how I, sometimes, manage to wander so far down the path away from the will of God?

What do you think?

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