Trusting the Signal

When you type a destination into Google Maps and press navigate, something remarkable happens beneath the surface. Your phone connects to at least four GPS satellites orbiting 12,500 miles above the earth — satellites you'll never see, whose signals travel at the speed of light — and within seconds, it pinpoints your location to within about 16 feet. You trust the route completely. You turn where the voice says to turn. You slow down before the curve appears. You don't demand to see the entire journey before you take the first step.

Most of us have experienced that unsettling moment when the GPS says "turn right" onto a road that looks completely wrong — a narrow lane, a dirt road, a route that seems to carry you away from your destination. And yet, if you've learned to trust the signal, you turn anyway. And it takes you exactly where you needed to go.

Trusting God often feels exactly like that. Proverbs 3:5-6 calls us to trust in the Lord with all our heart and lean not on our own understanding — to acknowledge Him in all our ways, and He will direct our paths. That is a navigation promise. God has a vantage point we simply do not have. He sees the entire route when we can only see the next turn.

The satellite never lost the signal. You just couldn't see it.

Today, wherever your path seems uncertain or the next turn looks wrong, lean into the One who sees what you cannot. Trust the signal.