A Personal Guide

I’ve struggled. I’ve tried. I’ve tried to be more religious. I’ve worked harder at it. I felt so frustrated, I didn’t know what to do. But I learned that this is part of the process that makes a Christian.

So I want to give you this little parable. The parable is this: You’re in a certain place, and you need to find the way to a distant destination over country that you’ve never traveled. And you have two options.

You can have a map, or you can have a personal guide. You understand the parable? The map is the law. It’s perfect. Every detail is exactly right. Every single item in the geography is correctly marked. Or, you can say, “I won’t take the map. I’ll take a personal guide.” Who is the personal guide? The Holy Spirit. That’s right.