In years gone by, paper maps charted our travels. We could hold them, highlight them, fold them (if you could figure our map folding). In today's world, we often have a GPS or Siri guiding us, more dynamic in many ways, and yet, sometimes when I am stressed on the road, Siri just stays calm, adding to my stress because she cannot answer my questions :0 For the Lord watches over the way of the godly... Psalm 1:6a Eugene Peterson in The Message, expands and personalizes that meaning to God charts the road you take. Picture God as a mapmaker or the coder of our navigational devices. Both are detail jobs. The God who had us in mind before the foundation of the world (see Ephesians 1), who wove us together in our mother's womb (Psalm 139), is leaning over His desk, with His masterpiece making hands charting the roads we take each and every day and invites our interaction.

Talk to God for just a minute about the roads He's charted that have been extraordinary. Thank Him for the roads ahead that are in His personalizing, detailing, God-hand crafted map making.

As Leaders, we are asked to chart the roads for others. Do we take the same high view of that as God does for us? There are Leaders who poured that kind of charting into me, as a young Leader. Others have given the handcrafted road charting to me as I have led beside them or with them. This week, let's be aware of the road charting we do for others and invite God into the process, that we might learn from the Master Mapmaker...