I have grown addicted to the GPS apps. Someone sends me an address, and the app will tell me where to go, how to get there, and which is the best route to take. Some GPS apps even include all the details like slow traffic, interruptions, road hazards, police, and all the places you might want to stop along the way. Convenient right? So – do you know where you are? Ask Siri or Alexa. They know.

I’ve often thought about the Tardis in Dr. Who and Hermione’s carry-all bag in Harry Potter. They are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside. Humans are that way. We are much bigger on the inside than our outsides show. We have years of history, places, things, emotions, memories all jogging along with our feet during our daily movements. The demoniac in Luke 8 had enough room to house a legion of demons who took out a herd of pigs when he was delivered. Our souls are greater than houses holding on to all kinds of treasures and junk. We carry all that while we are growing and gathering more.

Periodically, people, like me, take on a project to dejunk. It is shocking how much I have in closets and storage. My heart, soul, and mind are bigger than that, filled with all kinds of stuff. You might even think of the inner you as being as big as a city, a country, or a world when you consider all it contains. The GPS maps can’t map that. Ask Siri or Alexa where you are in the inner dimension and you won’t find any coordinates or directions. I think that many times you can’t know where you are except by looking back at where you were after the fact because our hindsight is better, or seemingly more clear, than present sight.

We actually do have an internal GPS called the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit comes to live in us upon the day of salvation when we join Jesus’s family. The Holy Spirit knows where He is in each of us. The Holy Spirit is constantly at work, walking the streets and hallways of the interior world of a child of God, mapping territories, cleaning closets, repairing destroyed areas, and proclaiming the Kingdom of God to all the areas inside that secretly don’t want to come under the authority of God.

The New Testament tells us how Jesus walked through Israel doing the wonderful things He did to free people and bring them in to the joy of the life He offered them. He is doing that in each of us, walking through all the inner areas of our souls bringing His life, love, hope, and healing, piece by piece, event by event, area by area throughout the entirety of our being. The Holy Spirit is our GPS.

We can see His footprints and know where He is and where we are with Him. How? Consider — How many times a day are you reminded to do the right thing? Be loving? Forgive someone? Pray? Be honest or thoughtful? Get a sudden insight that teaches you how to be a better you? Get a revelation or any kind of experience that draws/points you in the direction of Jesus? Get an understanding of Bible verses that you’ve read dozens of times and experience it like you are truly seeing it for the first time? Finding the Holy Spirit isn’t playing “Where’s Waldo” because He is busy talking to us all day, every day, in ways that make our lives, and we as people, better and closer to our Lord Jesus.