Driving into the Unknown

In group meeting this week I proposed a question to the young adults.  If we were all to get on a plane and fly to a place where only one of us had ever lived and had to get to a place in that town, who would drive?  Of course, they all responded that the one that had lived there should drive.  I am sure that many of you would answer the same way or would at the very least ask the person who had lived there for directions.  Now if this is such a simple concept then why do we as believers in an omnipotent God think we need to jump in the driver seat of our own lives.

It says in Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart;   I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”  Furthermore in Matthew 10:30, Jesus told the disciples that even the hairs on our head are numbered.  Personally, I don't even know how many hairs are on my own head but God does.  This means that he knows you better than you know yourself.


In Revelation 22:13 it says: " I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End."  This means that God can not only see today but he has seen yesterday and he also sees tomorrow.  If our God can see the future as if it is now then he can see our future and furthermore direct our path because he knows its ultimate destination. 

So, if God knows who we are better than we do and He knows our past, present, and future I ask again, why do we keep trying to take the wheel and drive ourselves through life?