Lost and Found

Have you ever been lost before? No, I mean REALLY lost? Especially with all the high tech gadgets out there now, it's probably unusual these days. I remember the first time I got lost. I was a new teenage driver on the interstate and somehow got off the wrong exit. I knew I wasn't far from home, but didn't yet know how to turn around and get back on. That was before cell phones and I clearly wasn't in an area where I could stop and ask for directions.
I just recently experienced it again. I was on my way to meet my mom about an hour away. Unfortunately I didn't get clear directions or the final destination before I started driving. I got general directions from my husband and was on my way. I soon realized I was low on gas, but figured I'd make it. After driving 30 minutes or so, I realized I had missed my exit. My mom happened to call at the right time to help me out. She rerouted me and we were on our way, again. She basically told me to go all the way down a certain road and when I couldn't go anymore, turn left (which I soon found out was a common direction people gave in the area).
After driving about 30 minutes out of the way, I ended up in this little ol' country town where gas stations are 25 miles apart, you drive by at least a million of the exact same looking trees, and you have no cell phone service! Thankfully I found a gas station and was able to refuel. Just as I got the correct address and punched it in on my phone GPS, my phone died! Now I was up a creek without a paddle because I had no idea where I was and no idea where I was going. After asking two different people for directions along the way, we managed to get there.
Ever feel like this in life? Sometimes I do. I get lost. I forget my purpose. I feel like I'm driving by the same looking trees over and over again, seemingly going nowhere. My view ahead looks exactly the same as my rearview. I think about how I can get the most out of this season of my life and where I am supposed to be going. I know that God knows, but that doesn't always make the anxious feelings and thoughts easier to handle. I wonder is there really a destination for me? Will I ever get there? How will I get there? Will I like it or will I feel stuck? Will I feel alone or will there be people that come along on this journey with me, etc. I have to remind myself that God is a good God. He knows me. He knows my purpose and will choose good things for me that I will like as He has always done.
I don't know what your GPS looks like, but on my phone the green dot is the starting point, the red one is the final destination, and I am the moving blue dot. Just like I look at my phone and see the overhead view, so does God. He saw my starting point, he sees my final destination, and I am the blue dot that he watches as I move along the map (Psalm 139). There is story after story in the Bible of God watching and knowing our lives and this brings me comfort. So though I still don't have the answers to where am I and where I am going, I know that He does. Though I sometimes feel lost, the truth is that I have already been found (Proverbs 3:5-6).