What you have written about the Holy Spirit being the Father’s “GPS” is truly a great meditation and one that speaks to a key subject many Christians struggle with today, namely the subject of God’s holy guidance of our conscience and our moral freedom.

It is common for people today to see their conscience as a tribunal that creates the good. They believe that conscience was given by God to be the place where they decide what shall be right or wrong for me. If my conscience approves of my decision then God must be approving also.

But this is not true. Conscience is not a tribunal where a verdict is rendered; rather it is Holy Ground where our soul and intellect and will are formed in the light of universal and objective norms of Truth, that is, God’s Divine Law. As Moses found sacred ground at the Burning Bush and so heard the voice of God calling his name, so the Christian interfaces with the God of the new Moses: Jesus Christ, who also calls us by name: “Come follow Me.”

Our heavenly Father’s GPS wants to guide the soul away from any notion that we “create” our own value system, etc. This leads only to confusion. And Christian truth is not confusing nor is it too demanding, or difficult to understand. It is not “almost impossible to practice” as so many say.

Rather God brings our soul to the waters so refreshing. To the holy Gospel and its simplicity, to following Jesus Christ as we learn to trust Him and abandon ourselves into His loving and sacred Heart.

The destination God’s GPS is set for is our spiritual regeneration and transformation by His grace and renewed each day by His mercy; a rebirth that makes for real and eternal communion with the blessed and Holy Trinity.

God bless you, and thank you for your good words today!

Fr. Klein