S1E4: God's GPS: Better Than Any Map You've Got

What truly happens when we choose to follow divine guidance instead of our own plans? This deeply reflective episode explores the profound benefits of "going with God" rather than against the spiritual current that's here to guide our lives.

Building on our previous exploration of barriers to spiritual surrender, I invite you to remember those pivotal moments when you listened to that quiet voice of truth within, followed it despite reservations, and witnessed the results. These moments of authentic spiritual choice aren't just random coincidences—they're glimpses into what's possible when we prioritize our most essential relationship, that with The One True Source.

I share my conviction that our connection with the divine constitutes "the only relationship that truly matters," forming the foundation for everything else in our lives. Unlike temporal relationships that change or end, this spiritual partnership offers consistent companionship throughout life's ups and downs. I reveal a deeply personal note I keep in my kitchen: "God says, 'Just stay with me...' And God's sentiment is that if you do go elsewhere, that's okay too, but 'come back to me,' God says.  'Always come back!'"—words that capture the unconditional nature of divine love.  God's always here waiting patiently to partner in union with us!

This episode acknowledges that following God's guidance doesn't eliminate suffering, but provides God's presence through all experiences. The present moment becomes our meeting place with the divine—"pure loving presence" available right now. 

I encourage you to spend just five minutes reflecting on what benefits you've experienced when following rather than resisting spiritual guidance. Your answers might surprise you and transform how you approach this most essential relationship.

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Transcript

Introduction to Going with God

Sarah Haykel 0:05

Hi and thanks for joining me on Welcoming God. Hey, thanks for joining me, Sarah Haykel, here on Welcoming God. I am super excited about this episode because this piggy-tales off of the previous episode about why it's difficult to go with God. What stops us? This is the flip side of that, which I'm super excited about, because it is just as important as last week's inquiry, just as important as last week's inquiry.

Benefits of Following Divine Guidance

Sarah Haykel 0:53

This week, I invite you to think about and inquire what is beneficial about following God's true guidance, going with God, staying with God, going with God, staying with God. What is beneficial about that? Where have you seen a moment in your life where you have listened, you have trusted that truth within you from the one true source, you followed it and you've experienced the results. What happened? Can you write that down or pause this podcast for a few moments and think about that time and really get the goodness of the benefit of staying with God, following God's truth, god's true guidance, even if it wasn't something you wanted to do necessarily, but you chose it and you experienced something from that. So what was that? So what was that? Was it encouraging? Did it make you want to do it? More will find and benefit from this show. Thanks so much, and let's get right back into it.

The Most Important Relationship

Sarah Haykel 2:33

So I think this is such a beautiful way to cultivate the most important relationship we will ever, ever have in our lives, which is with the one true source. It's the only relationship to me that. It's the only relationship that truly matters. I'm not going to be, I'm going to just cut to the chase here, not going to, you know, pussyfoot around this or try to like, make it nice and pretty. It is the one true source. This relationship is the one relationship that truly matters and makes a difference in our lives and everything else, all of our other relationships, our service in the world, everything that we do, that we love and brings more joy to life, it all comes from this one true source and our willingness to surrender to it, to commune with it, to embrace it, to develop and cultivate a truly consistent, loving, honest, clear, guided relationship with it. This is the most important thing that we can do is cultivate this relationship, because this is the one relationship that's consistent. Everything else will fall away. This is the one thing we have that will be consistent our whole lives through, and then we'll see what happens when we die. So I'm going to leave you with this.

Sarah Haykel 4:26

And I wrote this down several years ago on a card and I have it in my kitchen. I pull it out from time to time and it says God says, just stay with me, with me, just stay with me, don't go anywhere else. And if you do, that's okay too, but come back. No-transcript that we could ever experience. It's actually I'm feeling emotional just saying this, because it speaks to this honesty and this love that God wants us so badly, so wholly, to just trust it and just partner with it and go with it, because it truly wants and has the best for us.

Staying Present with God

Sarah Haykel 5:35

And it doesn't take away suffering all the time. It doesn't take away some of the challenges and natural challenges of human life. You know some people are experiencing extraordinary horror, harm, suffering right now. Some are experiencing extraordinary joy, happiness, bliss right now. You know it runs the gamut and this is a part of being human and it sucks, but like we're on the journey here together with God, and I just know, truly know, god wants the best for me and God wants the best for all of us in the whole of life, and it is up to us to listen and respond to God, to God's true guidance within, and that opens up a whole other conversation about discernment. How do we discern what's God's guidance and how do we know what we're following is the truth? So that's another conversation I also wrote on this card. When I am just here, in the present moment, this is where the best things happen, and why is that? Because the present moment is where God is and it is love, it is loving, it is purely here, loving presence now, and we'll talk about that in the next episode. Talk about that in the next episode.

Sarah Haykel 7:34

So how will you just take a few minutes today, whether it's right now, I think that's best. But if you don't have time, I understand. But sometime today, set a reminder, set an alarm. I'm going to take five minutes and sit with this question. Going to take five minutes and sit with this question.

Final Thoughts and Call to Action

Sarah Haykel 7:48

What is beneficial about going with God, not against, but with this one true source that wants my best and all of life's best? What is beneficial about this? It has our best at heart, its heart in its heart. If we could say it had a heart, I don't know if that's true or not, but what is beneficial? And I just encourage you to enjoy this inquiry and just see what comes up for you and see. Have fun with this. Enjoy this. I'll see you on the next episode. Thanks so much for joining me today and aloha nui loa, thanks for joining me on another episode of Welcoming God. Please subscribe to this podcast wherever you listen and consider leaving us a review, as it helps more people find and benefit from this show. Music by Song Channel Music. You can listen and hear more at songchannelmusiccom.