GPS and JESUS

So, I've realized that my relationship with Jesus is a lot like my relationship with a GPS.  I had to rely on a GPS for the first time this weekend to get me to where I needed to be.  Just like with Jesus, when I'm heading into the unknown, I tend to question whether or not the GPS is right.  When I'm in the middle of nowhere, in a dark and remote place, I'm thinking "Surely, this isn't the way that I'm supposed to be going!"  Similarly, when God has me in a situation that seems "dark" and takes me out of my comfort zone, I wonder if, maybe, He made a mistake.

"Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying "This is the way, walk in it."  Isaiah 30:21

On the other hand, it's amazing how comfortable I am when I'm driving somewhere that I've been a million times before.  It's easy to override the GPS and tell it that I know a better way, a quicker way, a way with less traffic.  I do the same thing with Jesus when I tell Him that I have my own way of doing things, thinking that my ways are better than His.  And, I'm wrong 100% of the time.

"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."  Isaiah 55:9

Often, I selfishly wish that Jesus was more like a GPS.  I could just type in where I want to go or what I want, and, presto it's mine.  A "GPS" Jesus would be convenient, easy, and safe, but it wouldn't be a relationship.  It wouldn't be the life that God created us to have.  In a relationship with Jesus, He's in the driver's seat, not me.  Why do I more easily rely on the things of this world rather than Jesus?  

"Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life."  John 14:6