FINDING MY WAY
HOW TO DISCOVER GOD’S WILL
Chris Pyatt
The other day as I was heading down the road, I came upon a car that was stuck. No, he wasn’t caught in a ditch or broken down; he was sitting at a stop sign faced with three options. He could either veer to the right or to the left, or he could choose neither of the two and just stay stopped and forego making any type of decision. I watched as he hurriedly tried to check out the GPS on his phone. He was frantic and confused. The horns blasted behind him from cars eager to get on their way which did nothing to help this frazzled traveler. In his mind he had a destination to get to, the problem was, he didn’t know which road would take him there. As I sat there and watched, and no, I wasn’t one of the drivers behind him trying to encourage him with the horn, I began to think of how perfectly this pictured the situation faced by many Christian teenagers. For the past seventeen or eighteen years, they have traveled down a path paved by their parents. It’s a one way road they have traveled lined with school, chores, church, and the rules of the house. For the most part, they have been oblivious to the major decisions of life that have been made for them by their parents or guardians such as where to live, where to go to church and school, and what kind of job is needed to pay the bills. They have been in a cocooned state inside their parents’ decisions. However, very soon that cocoon will fall off and they will have to fly on their own. They will have to decide where, when, and how to fly.
