One day I was in my car driving to an unfamiliar destination. I looked at my phone and touched the screen to get a preview of the route I was on and my car was out of focus on the GPS screen. While using this app, I noticed there was a button in the lower left-hand side of my phone screen called re-center. I pressed the button on the app and immediately I was able to calibrate to my surroundings and proceeded to my destination.

This I thought to myself is a microcosm of our lives. oftentimes we find ourselves sidetracked, lost and going in the wrong direction with things that are insignificant to our destination and or destiny. I have learned, thank God it is not too late, that without a plan, vision or forethought to what you intend to accomplish with the few short days we have on this earth, we will wander aimlessly throughout life. Just as we use a GPS to help us get to one destination to another, vision is the GPS to getting our lives from a state of habitual daydreaming and present reality.

For most of us, we never have been exposed to re-centering our lives. We chase after whatever the latest trend is and we pursue it, even to the detriment of leaving our original intended purpose. We never take the time to discover our true purpose and destiny and the direction it takes to get there. We ask other people who if they were to be completely honest with you, they haven’t re-centered or discovered their own lives based on the vision God has given them. I don’t know about you, but I am ready to come to the intersection of Destiny Blvd and Opportunity Lane and make the correct turn according to the GPS for my life and be completely centered.

it is a worthwhile exercise to make sure that our lives are re-centered. We have to make sure we are on the route we should be traveling. We can’t look at another person course and determine that it is the one for us to travel on. Just like a plane of a particular airline may all look the same with their markings and paint job, they are traveling to different destinations. They each receive different coordinances to reach their destinations. If the pilot is off by just one degree, the plane will not reach its intended destination and at some point will have to recenter in order to correct the navigation mistake.

Let us take a hard look at what we are currently doing and the activities we are apart of and the people in our circles. Are these things constantly causing our internal GPS to say re-calibrating? Are we constantly hearing the GPS message” As soon as you can please make a legal U-Turn? Make just maybe we should stop, take note, and re-center