Directions to the Potter's House (Part 2): Use the GPS to get to Heaven

Global Positioning  System (GPS) To Get To Heaven

Proverbs 1:8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. (NIV)

Many people use a Global Positioning System (GPS) to navigate them when driving in unfamiliar territory rather inner city or from state to state. There is normally a computerized voice that gives verbal navigational commands so that the driver can keep his/her eyes on the road and not get lost at the same time. As long as the driver listens to the directions and follows them, the driver will arrive at their desired destination. However, if the driver ignores the commands given, there’s a good chance that the driver will get lost and be unable to find his way. Fortunately, most GPS have rerouting directions, so that when the original directions aren’t followed, it will give the driver another route, so that he can still arrive at his desired destination.

The Potter is our spiritual GPS. He has given us directions to His house through His Holy Word. All we have to do is follow them and one day, we will arrive. The GPS is His Word and the navigational voice is the Holy Spirit. All we have to do is listen and follow all commands. Sometimes, however, we decide to take our own directions because we think that we have a short-cut only to find ourselves lost and in need of a reroute. When we decide to listen to the Holy Spirit after we have fallen off course, He will gladly reroute us and get us back on the path towards God. This doesn’t mean that a person will be perfect and never do anything wrong. The Holy Spirit is always there to say, “Turn around! Wrong way! Make a turn here!” He does this in order to lead us back to the path of the Potter’s House. Let’s see what streets that we have drive down using the Potter’s GPS to get to where He is.

Ask Street – Mark 11:24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. (NIV) We must first ask for the Potter to enter our hearts. He is all too willing to reside in us, but first, we must ask Him to do so. When He create us, He did so with us having access to free will. Therefore, He never forces us to do anything, but if we ask, He will gladly reside in us.   

Belief Road – Acts 16:31 They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved – you and your household.” (NIV) We must believe that God is able to save us and through Jesus Christ alone this is done. There is no other way to get to the Father, but through his Son Jesus. Therefore, when we ask Him into our hearts and believe that He is the Son of the Living God, this is the starting point at which our lives begin going in the right direction.

Confess Lane – 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (NIV) We must confess our sins to Him. God already knows what we have done wrong in our lives. Nevertheless, He wants us to acknowledge what we have done as an act of humility before Him because He loves us.

Repent Ave – Acts 3:19 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord. (NIV) Once we confess our sins, then we are to repent of them. That means that we do not continue to do the sinful behavior that once separated us from God. True repentance means that we do a U-turn in the opposite direction and do not keep repeating the same mistakes that we once made.

Claim Blvd – Romans 4:20-21 Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he promised. (NIV) As we continue to drive down the road towards our eternal destination, we must make sure to claim God’s promises. We must have faith and believe that God’s word is true and that He desires for us to spend eternity with Him. Therefore, we can claim and stand on His promises that we will one day arrive at the pearly gates of Heaven.

Baptism Junction – Acts 2:38 Peter replied, “Repent and he baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” (NIV) As a sign of obedience, God wants us all to be baptized in Him with water and with the fire of the Holy Spirit. Baptism within itself does not save you, but when you decide to follow Jesus, you will follow His example in all things. Baptism is the watery grave that lets the world know that you have died to the old, once you are submerged under water, and have come up in the new just as Jesus was resurrected.

Holy Spirit Station – Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. (NIV) Upon accepting Jesus into your heart and being baptized, the Holy Spirit resides in your heart. He will teach you all things and give you spiritual gifts as we discussed in the previous chapter to do that work for the Kingdom that you are called to do. Everyone will not have the same gift, but those in Christ body will have the same Spirit. Never pass up Holy Spirit Station because He empowers the believer with the fuel that's need to make life's journey. 

Evangelism Highway – Mark 16:15 He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. (NIV) Finally, you must keep driving till you get to Heaven, but as you drive, Evangelism Highway will be a long stretch of road because it is on this road that you will give others directions to the Potter’s House. We can’t afford to keep the gospel of Christ to ourselves. There’s a world that is lost and just as someone shared the gospel with us, we must do our part to share it with someone else.

            Now that you have directions to the Potter’s House, let’s see what He wants to do to restore us along the way. The path to the Potter’s House is not always easy. There is sure to be times of turbulence along the way. Nevertheless, the Potter is doing work on our vessels as we are arriving. We must remember to always stop at the Holy Spirit Service Station in order for Him to refuel, run a dialysis and do a tune-up, so that our vessels will arrive in tip top shape. 

TOMORROW, LET'S BEGIN WITH THE POTTER'S DESIRE FOR...RESTORATION.