I Need a GPS!

My husband recently downloaded a new voice for our GPS. It's supposed to be a horror voice, somewhere between James Earl Jones and Vincent Price. It's a low deep voice with elongated vowels that echo long after he stops speaking. I have affectionately named him Igor.
One day as I was driving to day camp at Pleasant Grove Campground, Igor was quite insistent that I go a particular route. I was dead set on going the route that I knew. So every time I strayed off course, Igor would grumpily say, "Let me consult my magic book." Then he would come back with new instructions from my current location to take me back to the route HE wanted me to use! He was quite aggravated with me by the time we got there and he said (it's true, I have witnesses!), "Arrive at this dreaded destination on left." Such attitude!
On the way to work yesterday, it occurred to me that it would be great if God would vocally give me directions for my course in life! I would put in righteousness as my destination, or God's will as my destination, and God's voice (think clouds and thunder!) would come over my iPod, car stereo, iPhone, telephone or computer! And you know God would never steer you wrong, so you'd be set for life! Why hasn't God thought of this? He could set up a facebook account and nudge me when I go astray! Life would be so much easier if God's plan for me was that easy to understand and follow.
The great nineteenth century British preacher C.H. Spurgeon explains why God doesn't make it too easy on us.

He will be my guide even unto death. Psalm 48:14 KJV

We need a guide. Sometimes we would give all that we have to be told exactly what to do and where to turn. We are willing to do right, but we do not know which one of two roads we are to follow. Oh, for a guide! The Lord our God condescends to serve us as guide. He knows the way and will pilot us along it till we reach our journey's end in peace. Surely we do not desire more infallible direction. Let us place ourselves absolutely under His guidance, and we shall never miss our way. Let us make Him our God, and we shall find Him our guide. If we follow His law we shall not miss the right road of life, provided we first learn to lean upon Him in every step that we take. Our comfort is that as He is our God forever and ever, He will never cease to be with us as our guide. "Even unto death" will He lead us, and then we shall dwell with Him eternally and go no more out forever. This promise of divine guidance involves lifelong security: salvation at once, guidance unto our last hour, and then endless blessedness. Should not each one seek this in youth, rejoice in it in middle life, and repose in it in old age? This day let us look up for guidance before we trust ourselves out-of-doors.

 He makes it sound so simple! Actually it is simple, but it is not easy. God doesn't yell at us when we do wrong. He speaks to us in our innermost being, coming as a still small voice that we have to look for, wait for, and listen for. As Spurgeon says, we have to look up for guidance before we trust ourselves to leave the house! There is a GPS for life - it's called the Word (God), the Word Incarnate (Passion), and the Word indwelling (Spirit). With that GPS, who could go wrong?