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The “Trail Guide” devotional is used by our adult leaders of grade school groups in Quest as a way to prepare their hearts and minds for the topics we will be covering with the children on the weekend.  We have made them available here to help our parents of grade-schoolers engage with their children around the topics we are discussing and also for anyone else that might be blessed by following along.

SOUL SHERPA, LESSON 1: The Holy Spirit is Our Guide

The work of the Holy Spirit is to manifest (make known, show) the active presence of God in the world and especially in the church.

Isn’t GPS a great thing?  It amazes me that a satellite high above the earth can see me, and when combined with digital mapping software, can tell me how to get from point A to B in the quickest way possible.  It amazes me even more to consider that this system can see if there is heavy traffic or an accident along my route and re-direct me around it.  If I take a wrong turn it quickly notifies me. “Rerouting.”  But as amazing as this system is, it is only as good as its underlying data.  How many times have you followed your GPS directions only to find out that its map data is incorrect and you are at a dead end or the address data is incomplete and you end up in a business park when you wanted to be at a friend’s house?  Even when the data is good, it isn’t foolproof. An overcast day or poor cell coverage can knock your GPS out completely.

But there is a guidance system that is 100% trustworthy, 100% of the time.  Its data is perfectly reliable.  It works no matter how dark it gets because to it, “darkness is as light.”  It is an integrated system that lights your path, turns your darkness to light, guides you on the best path possible, reroutes you when you make a wrong turn, and even provides roadside assistance when you break down along the highways of life.  That is our triune God.  God’s living Word, breathed out by the Father through the Son is its database.  It is empowered by his Holy Spirit whose job it is to make known the active presence of God in the world and especially in his children by guiding us into all truth.  Our students need to learn early that they can depend, with ALL their hearts, on their fail-safe guidance system.

“I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.” (Isaiah 42:16)

“Guide me in Your truth and teach me…”  -Psalm 25:5a

MEDITATING ON THE WORD:

Proverbs 3:5-6
Isaiah 42:16
John 8:12
Psalm 119:105
Psalm 23:1-3