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GPStress

John 14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. (RSV) It is a common device to try describe spiritual truths by physical examples..."What a man sows so shall he reap" type of idea from the realm of farming. How about this one, "Whatever a man rips, he sews?" Or, more accurately, his wife sews (not saying that this is the way it should be or anything). You have probably heard something like this within the last couple of years, "the Holy Spirit is like a GPS" guiding us through the travels of life. There is one problem with this analogy...for all of the usefulness of GPS systems, they are often wrong. We need to be careful with such comparisons. Such analogies are heresy. The Holy Spirit is always right in both His remembrance (past to present) and teaching (present to future). Lina and I were up in New York City last weekend for the