Taxi Drivers

Friday, October 30

Taxi Drivers  

Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105

If you were dropped into a major city of the word, chances are you’d have an idea of a landmark and could find your way around. In New York there is Times Square or Central Park. In Paris you’d know about the Eiffel Tower, in Sydney you’d head for the Opera House but you do not need to end the search here. In each city there is one person you can rely on without a doubt. The one person who really knows about a city is a local taxi driver. These drivers are amazing! Not only are they normally highly entertaining in their story-telling and maybe a little over-confident in their ability to dodge pedestrians and cyclists – but they know every detail of the city. Don’t worry about getting stuck in a traffic jam, these taxi drivers know exactly which detour to take so that you can reach the desired destination. They know the main routes but they also know every side road and short cut. This is often how it can work for us and the Bible. When life takes you to a new place you do not need a new word or a new verse, like the taxi driver finding your peace by meditating on a bible landmark.

We know the major landmarks – Psalms 23, Jeremiah 29:11, Psalm 100, Matthew 5, and John 3:16,. I am sure you have your own but generally speaking, these chapters/verses represent the believer’s landmarks. The reason a taxi driver knows all the details of his city is simply because he spends all of his time there. Every day he drives around its streets. He didn’t know it all when he started out but the more he drove around, the more he knew. Likewise, we can become familiar with God’s word if we spend time reading and meditating on it.

So let’s commit before God to be taxi drivers of this great ‘city’ called the Bible. Spend time in His Word so that we can navigate all that life brings our way and we can know the greatness of our God.