Have you ever driven across Wyoming in the middle of the night? We did this summer. We left Utah around 9:00 PM and drove through the night so Duncan would last the 8 hour drive north to Powell. It had been several years since I had last made the trip and I had never done it in the night. Needless to say we had to ask the phone a few times where to turn. My phone has turn by turn navigation capabilities and we had to use it a time or two so we didn't end up in South Dakota.
For those that haven't had the pleasure of driving these Wyoming roads let me tell you that there are stretches of I want to say 100+ miles where you wont see anything but dirt and tumble weeds. If you mix that in with the night sky you can't see farther then the 50 or so feet in front of you that you headlights are showing. So you are forced to TRUST this road that you are driving on that it will indeed take you where you really want to go. At day time you can at least see some land marks from time to time but all that goes away at night. When we came to some cross roads it wasn't always clear which way we needed to turn. When we weren't sure we asked the trusty phone. You can see a couple hundred feet above you and even go ahead if you want to see where this windy road is taking you. All of the sudden I can see farther ahead then the headlights, the worry of not being sure about a choice is gone because I know the GPS doesn't care if it is light or dark out, it knows how to guide me to where I want to go.
It didn't dawn on me until the next day at church the spiritual implications that trip had on me. Our lives are just like that road trip, each and every person is born with the light of Christ "headlights". Just like the don't make cars with out headlights our loving Heavenly Father doesn't send his children to earth without the light of Christ to help them see a few feet ahead. For those that chose, the gift of the Holy Ghost is conferred that acts as a GPS. Our goal is to make if from point A to point B. A being birth and B being back to him once more. How nice is it to have the luxury of a GPS on this trip back home? How scary are those times when we are left without it, not knowing where to turn next, trying to trust our own abilities to get back? GPS devices run off battery and can go dead if not recharged. We all make decisions from time to time that deplete our batteries and cause the Holy Ghost to leave us in the dark. How great the power of the atonement is that allows these batteries to be recharged with countless re-tries when we mess up? It is clear to see that God wants all of us back. He can't or won't force us back though; it is up to us to come to his open arms. (3 Nephi 9:13-14)
This luxury is fully paid for by the blood of Christ, it is available to everyone no matter who you are, what you have done, or where you are from. It is scary to think of life without this guidance, Satan knows how great this guidance is to us and will do everything in his power to convince us that we are not good enough to have this gift. Don't listen to him, we are all good enough, we can all make it back to him and see the sun rise. Remember it is always darkest just before sunrise.
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