Technology is great, isn’t it, especially when you take a trip to an unfamiliar city. You can pull up GPS, give your phone an address and it will direct you right to your destination.  Not sure where you want to eat? You can say, “find restaurants” and there they are on your screen. Want to find out what’s showing at the movies? You can do that sitting in the car because there’s an app for that.

What I REALLY love is the Bible app. Wherever I am, where ever I go and need direction, I can consult the Word on my phone and find out what God says about any situation at any time, anywhere. Psalm 119:133 says, “Direct my steps by Your word, and let no iniquity have dominion over me.” Psalm 37:23, “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and He delights in his way.” Psalm 119:105, “Your Word is a lamp to my feet, a light to my path.” 

I love what Paul wrote in Romans 12:2, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” When was the last time you allowed the Word to wash your mind, to renew your thoughts? What controls your mind? The news report you watch on T.V.? The chaos in the lunchroom at work? You were created to make a difference in the world but if you don’t exchange your thoughts for His thoughts, you won’t offer the world any hope of anything other than what the see around them. 

I’ve seen people receive a diagnosis from the doctor and go online and research it until they are so focused on the disease that they’ve forgotten that God has the final say and He says that Jesus took all their diseases on the himself so they don’t have to. They haven’t washed their minds with the Word. It’s like an after thought when it should be the first thought. What does the Word say about that?

I don’t know what you’re facing today, but if you’ll do this one simple thing, renew your mind in His Word, you’ll find the hope you need and the assurance that God has an app for that. You can apply the blood of Jesus to that problem, that disease, that lack, because His Word is alive, powerful and like a surgeon, cuts out the bad so that the new can live. I trust Him over any doctor, banker or employer. I trust Him over our president, financial adviser or real estate agent. I trust Him over my bank account, my paycheck, my bills. Though I’ve failed Him many times, His Word never fails and He never leaves me or forsakes me. Every promise in that book is mine and I claim it by the blood of the Lamb.

You may be directionally challenged as I am at times, but you have a compass that is always true; God’s Word. His Spirit leads you into all truth. Open up your heart to Him and allow the peace and presence of the Lord to fill you up to overflow, spilling out onto whatever you’re facing today.  There is always a better way, sometimes you just have to look for it.