October 19, 2014 A.D. by Pastor Ben Willis
October 21st, 2014THE BIBLE IS OUR SPIRITUAL COMPASS
Need: A compass
Scripture: “Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.” (Psalm 119:105) “Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6)
I got a new app for my phone last night. It’s a compass. Have all of you have seen a compass? A compass is used to find the right direction to get you to where you want to go. The compass has four main directions: North, South, East, and West. To have a compass work it’s important to keep the needle of the compass always pointing North. If the needle is pointing in that direction (point to the North) and I want to go South, I would go that direction (point in the opposite direction from what the needle is pointing.) With the needle pointing North, if I wanted to go East, I would go in that direction (point to the East.)
What would it be like if the needle sometimes pointed North but at other times it pointed to the South, East, or West? I would never be able to use the compass to find my way. I would wander around, hopelessly lost. The compass must always point in the right direction if it is going to help guide us.
When we are trying to find our way through life, God has given us a compass to guide us along the Way, as well. Does anyone know what that is? That compass is the Bible: God’s Holy Word. The truth that we find in the Bible never changes. It will always point us in God’s direction. It will always point us to Jesus.
Some people use their feelings to help them to decide what they should do. That’s no good. Our feelings change from day to day and they cannot be trusted. Besides that, just because we feel good about something doesn’t mean that it is the right thing to do.
Some people choose what they will do by what’s popular. That is no good either. Just because everyone else is doing it doesn’t mean that it is the right thing to do, does it? Tomorrow everyone might be doing something else.
There is only one thing that we can trust to always point us in the right direction, and that is the Bible. It will always point to Jesus and Jesus said ” I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through Me.”
[Give out Bibles to 3rd Graders…]
Father, we thank you for giving us the Bible to be our guide through life. Help us to remember that we can always depend on the Bible to point us in the right direction. Amen.