Now I’ll Never Be Lost!
	Some of you know what a blog is: it’s short for Web Log. A Web Log, or blog, is an internet site where you post whatever happens to be on your mind that you want other people to know about. The other day I was reading a blog by brother Jeff Jenkins, who works with a congregation in Lewisville. He told about a little girl who had received a brand new Bible as a gift to celebrate the fact that she was starting first grade. As she looked through it, she noticed a map at the back. She looked at her mother and said, “Mommy, look, it has a map! Now I will never be lost!”
	Sometimes little children, in their charming innocence, say things that are profound. This is certainly one of those times. We fully realize that a map of Palestine in the back of a Bible isn’t likely to help that little girl when she’s old enough to get her driver’s license and gets lost in downtown Dallas. But she said far more than she realized! The psalmist  said, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” Like the pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night that guided the newly-freed Hebrew saves in the wilderness, so the word of God guides us in our wandering through the wilderness of this world as we head for Jordan and the promised land. With God’s word, we will never be lost as long as we follow it. If we neglect it and become lost, it will guide us back onto the right road. Jesus told His disciples, “Where I go you know, and the way you know” (John 14:4). When Thomas objected, saying they didn’t know where He was going or the way, Jesus replied with the immortal words, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me” (14:6).
	Jesus leads us by means of His word. His word guides us to salvation. It guides us to live the right way here-and-now. And it guides us to heaven when our work here is done. Your Bible doesn’t just have a map; it IS a map. Read the map! Follow the map! Do that, and you’ll never be lost!