What if Mary, Joseph and Jesus had GPS?

Actually in a Florida town, they are fitting the nativity scene figures of Mary, Joseph and Jesus with GPS after losing baby Jesus to a theft last year.

This started me thinking about Christmas and shopping. I haven't done any shopping this year because of the Beast, but I do know that one of the hot items is a GPS unit. As always, there's a gadget that gets marketed more and the GPS is one of them. 

GPS really serves the traveler best - travelers like Mary and Joseph who were looking for an inn. There was no AAA map , no GPS, no way to know what was ahead on their journey. They just set out in faith. 

They wound up in a stable, but that stable was the perfect humble surrounding for God's son to enter the world.  If they had known what was ahead,  perhaps they would have found some place "better", some place they thought befit the birth of the son of God.  But GPS still wouldn't have opened the doors of the inns for them, nor would it solve any other number of obstacles facing them that night.  

So I'm not sure having GPS would have made much difference at all.  I guess sometimes even having the best directions in the world doesn't remove the need to have faith on our journey.