Choosing a Good Navigator of Life Is Crucial to Us

By Xia Yu

Occasionally, I heard on the radio: There is one who wants to drive to a strange place. Before starting, he downloads a navigation software. All the way, he drives according to the routes navigated by the software. Unexpectedly, due to something wrong with the navigation software, he is led to another strange place. Helplessly, he has to ask the police for help.

Not difficult to imagine how the man was feeling at that time, and he has never thought that such a high-tech product also makes mistakes. But then again, if we choose the wrong navigator on our way to the destination, we can adjust and set sail again. However, if we choose the wrong navigator in our lives, it will be very hard to turn back.

In our lives, we would always pass many strange crossroads, yet in each of which we would face a choice. However, most times, we have much difficulty in choosing. If we choose the right direction, we can walk the right way, otherwise the wrong way we choose may bring us pain and tragedy. So when we feel confused and helpless, what we need most is a navigator leading us to walk the right way.

Looking back on the records in the Bible: The original Adam and Eve, due to the temptation of Satan, went back from God’s words, and yet regarded Satan’s word as their own navigator. As a result, they betrayed God and were driven out of the Garden of Eden, living a painful life from then on …

And the Jews two thousand years ago, abandoned God’s way, yet obeyed the words of religious leaders and treated chief priests, scribes and Pharisees as the navigator in their ways of believing in God. Blindly listening to the words of the Pharisees, they rejected the gospel of the kingdom of heaven the Lord Jesus brought, and even followed the chief priests to nail holy and innocent Jesus to the cross, causing the tragedy of losing the country …

Nowadays, many brothers and sisters in the Lord, when encountering things in their lives, neither pray to God or seek His will nor practice His words, yet treated the priests and elders as their navigator and listened to the guidance of them on how to act. It was because of their wrong choice that they got farther and farther away from God. Outwardly, they seemed to be believing in and following God, but actually were following the person, and thus they fell into the darkness …

The occurrence of these tragedies, wasn’t it because we have chosen the wrong navigator? Throughout history, isn’t there anyone who has chosen the right navigator? Let’s have a look at the following persons.

In the era of Noah, Noah made the ark according to what God told him. In the end, Noah and his family, a total of eight people, survived in the flood.

After hearing God’s calling, Abraham acted according to what God instructed him. Ultimately, he was blessed by God, having a big country and his descendants as numerous as the sand on the seashore and the stars in the sky.

Before the burning of Sodom, Lot obeyed the guidance of the Holy Spirit, receiving the two angels. Finally, due to believing the angels’ words, Lot escaped from Sodom and survived.

When the Israelites were led out of Egypt by Moses, those who had no notion of Jehovah God and truly obeyed Him finally gained God’s promise, entering the good land of Canaan.

When the Lord Jesus came to work, those who listened to what the Lord Jesus preached recognized it was from God and was the voice of God, and thus they followed the Lord Jesus. They believed that the Lord Jesus is the truth, the way and the life, and treated the words of the Lord Jesus as the navigator in their lives, finally they received the salvation of the Lord.

At this point, I suddenly thought of a passage of God’s words, “Because the essence of God is holy, that means that only through God can you walk through life on the righteous path of light; only through God can you know the meaning of life; only through God can you live out real humanity and both possess and know the truth. Only through God can you obtain life from the truth. Only God Himself can help you shun evil and deliver you from the harm and control of Satan. Besides God, no one and nothing can save you from the sea of suffering so that you suffer no longer. This is determined by the essence of God. Only God Himself saves you so selflessly; only God is ultimately responsible for your future, for your destiny and for your life, and He arranges all things for you. This is something that nothing created or non-created can achieve. Because nothing created or non-created possesses an essence like the essence of God, no person or thing has the ability to save you or to lead you. This is the importance of God’s essence to man” (“God Himself, the Unique VI”).

God is the Lord of all creation, and He is possessed of authority and power. Only God can guide the way we walk forward, bestow us life, and supply everything we need. Except for God, no great or famous person or spiritual figure can bring us the right way of life, much less can they point out the right direction. So, no matter what kind of choice we face, and what kind of thing we encounter, the wisest option is to let God’s words become our navigator!