"My Personal Guide"

 

Years ago my family and I went on a black history tour.  We were assigned a personal tour guide.  Someone that would guide us through the city, and give us a few tidbits of information along the way.  The tour guide was very knowledgeable about the area and its history.  I've been on many tours, and the guests generally trust the guide, going in restricted areas and dark places, oooohing and aaaaahing over the facts they provide.  If you went on the tour alone, without a guide, you probably wouldn't get as much out it.  You'd  spend most of your time wandering around the historic site with limited information.  

 

Wouldn't it be great if we trusted Jesus the way we trust a tour guide?  He has provided us with an entire Book of facts and information, instructions and promises, all to 'guide us, and light our path'.  But do we take advantage of it?  Who would attempt to put together an item with hundreds of tiny parts without first reading the instructions?  If you did you probably wouldn't get very far before you had to refer to the instructions.  Let's not start our journey, wait until we're in a jam, and THEN refer to the instructions.  Pull out the instruction Book first, and let Jesus be your personal guide.

Margaret Slaughter