When the sat nav goes quiet

You know that feeling.

You’re driving somewhere unfamiliar at night. You’re relying on the sat nav. And then - right at the most complicated junction - it goes quiet. You slow down, you peer at the signs, and for a moment you genuinely don’t know which way to go.

It’s a small version of something a lot of us feel on a much bigger scale.

Not just which road do I take? but where is any of this actually going? Relationships that feel uncertain. Decisions that carry real weight. Days full of noise and competing voices. And underneath it all, that quiet, aching question: is anyone actually steering this thing?

Today’s devotional sits with that question - and finds an answer in John 16, where Jesus, speaking to his friends just hours before his arrest, promises that the Holy Spirit will come as a guide. Not to replace the map, but to walk alongside you through the terrain. He reveals truth. He points toward what’s ahead. And he always leads back to Jesus.

I was struck again by a line from John Henry Newman’s old hymn Lead, Kindly Light: “I do not ask to see the distant scene - one step enough for me.” That’s not resignation. That’s trust. It’s the posture of someone who has stopped demanding a view of the whole map and learned to follow the one who holds it.

Today’s small holy step: ask the Spirit one honest question. Then sit quietly for two minutes and listen.

You can watch the full five-minute devotional here:

You are not lost. You have a guide.

Rob

Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/you-dont-have-to-keep-feeling-stuck?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true