In this episode of the Weekday Podcast, Pastor Chuck Allen offers a thoughtful reminder about navigating life's challenges. Using a relatable analogy of feeling lost and car sick on an uncertain road trip, he connects this to the bigger picture of our spiritual journey. Pastor Chuck explains how trusting God's master plan is like trusting a divine GPS, with Jesus as the perfect bridge to our destination of hope. As you listen, you'll be encouraged to put your faith in motion, knowing that no matter how rough the road feels, God's plan leads to peace and purpose.
Hi, everybody. Pastor Chuck Allen here with another weekday podcast. Have you ever felt lost in the middle of life's journey? I preached this past week and I was talking a lot about what it's like in the backseat of a car and you don't know where you're headed and you might have your head down reading or looking at your iPad like I was, and you get a little, well, nauseous.
You get a little car sick. I've never had that happen before, but I had it happen in the backseat of a Chevy Silverado. And today I want to remind you that God is the master architect of your life.
You don't have to live your life in this sense of car sick fog. I think all of that, it sounds a little ethereal, but the truth is when I stop and recognize that God truly has a plan for my life, it's almost like whether I'm in the backseat or in the passenger seat, I'm like the driver. I can trust God's GPS in my life because he has this wonderful architectural plan for my life.
You know, the famous verse from Jeremiah 29, 11 says, for I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord's their plans for good and not for disaster to give you a future and a hope. I just think that's amazing that God, the creator of the universe has these extraordinarily specific and wondrous plans for your life. But here's the thing.
We often try to see from where we're at across a chasm to where God wants us to be and build our own bridge, a bridge to success or happiness, fulfillment. Often we try to build the bridge with all the wrong things. We try to build it with more education or we try to build it with more government or we try to build it with more money.
We try to build it with more pride, with more success. I mean, any way you look at it, and if we try to build that bridge on personal fulfillment or happiness, we're building it with a limited knowledge and limited resources. But God's already built the perfect bridge for us, and that bridge is Jesus Christ, literally the second part of the Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, Jesus, and God the Holy Spirit.
John 14, 6 tells us, Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Jesus, my friend, is a bridge to God's perfect plan.
He's the bridge to the ideal outcome. No one comes to God the Father in wholeness apart from Jesus. That's what he says.
No one comes to the Father except through me, Jesus says. Jesus didn't build a bridge for us. Jesus is the bridge for us.
He's the bridge to God's perfect plan. He connects us to the Heavenly Father. He guides us on the right path.
So how do we cross this bridge? Well, if you think about it, if God is the master architect and Jesus himself is the bridge, we need a vehicle to cross. And the vehicle we cross with is faith. Hebrews 11 tells us that faith shows the reality of what we hope for.
It's the evidence of things we cannot see. Faith is our vehicle to get across the bridge and reach God's destiny and his destination for us. My friend, the beauty is that that destination is hope.
When we really genuinely have faith that the master architect has a plan and the plan includes Jesus himself as the bridge that we need to walk on and through and for, when we trust by faith that we get on that road and on that bridge, we get to experience hope. So today I challenge you to trust God's master plan and embrace Jesus as your bridge and let faith be your vehicle. Remember, no matter how bumpy the road seems, God is working all things together for your good.
Your journey has purpose, my friend, and your destination truly is hope. You know what I've discovered? I live at peace when I live with hope. God bless you, friend.
Thanks so much for joining me on today's weekday podcast.
