With God as Our Guide

A few days ago, I had a conversation about travelling with or without a guide or tour group. Travelling without a guide or group allows a greater degree of freedom, but it also carries a greater risk of things going wrong. If you travel with a guide or group, you still get to have an adventure, but it's safer than going alone.
On Earth, we're all going on a sort of adventure. We're all spending time away from our eternal homes, having experiences we couldn't otherwise have had. At this point, we can't choose whether or not to go on this adventure; we already made that choice, but we can still choose whether or not we'll follow a guide, and which guide we'll follow.

If we go without a guide, we'll be able to go wherever we want, including straight into danger, if we're not careful. If we choose the wrong guide, we will almost certainly be led into a trap. But if we use God as our guide, we can still have all the adventure of a mortal life without causing problems for our eternal lives. We can travel through mortality and still make it home safe and sound.

Travelling is fun, and I am attracted to the idea of travelling without set plans. It's liberating, but it's also somewhat dangerous. And when you're travelling through an area as dangerous as mortality, it's critical that you have and follow a good guide. I wouldn't wander through an African jungle without a good guide, and it's just as important, if not more so, not to travel through mortality without a good guide. So, as tempting as it is to choose my own paths, I'm going to try to be wise enough to let God guide me. Life is an adventure either way. There's no need to make it a dangerous one by abandoning my guide.