What GPS are you following?What GPS are you following?
The Recovery Pastor Podcast
Shannon, the Recovery Pastor, shares a wrong-turn drive to a church as a picture of following the wrong "GPS" in life and recovery. He contrasts the painful pull of grief and shame with the peace of following God’s plan of salvation, inviting people to rethink which guidance they are trusting.
1:36•13 May 2026
What GPS Are You Following? A Faith-Fuelled Check on Your Recovery Route
Episode Overview
- Worldly "GPS" guided by grief, pain, and shame can look convincing yet still lead to the wrong destination.
- A small course correction—like going a little further down the main road—can completely change where someone ends up.
- God’s plan of salvation is pictured as a different kind of GPS that brings peace instead of anxiety.
- Following God’s guidance brings an adventure, a story, and a lesson, even through wrong turns and detours.
- People in recovery are challenged to examine which directions they are trusting and which route they are truly on.
“When you follow my GPS, God’s plan of salvation, there’s always an adventure, there’s always a story, and there’s always a lesson.”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? This short message from The Recovery Pastor Podcast uses a simple road-trip story to spark a big question: **what GPS are you following?** Shannon, the Recovery Pastor, shares a morning drive to guest preach at a church. He punches the address into his phone, trusts the directions, and ends up on a narrowing dirt road, swallowed by trees, heading up a steep hill.
At the top, instead of a church, he’s met with a striking sight: a 20-foot cross and a quiet cemetery. It’s beautiful, but also a sharp reminder that he’s in the wrong place. After backtracking to the main road, he realises that if he’d gone less than a quarter of a mile further, he would have reached the church easily.
That moment becomes a picture of what happens when someone follows the “worldly GPS” of **grief, pain, and shame** instead of something deeper and kinder.
As he finally arrives at the church, Shannon says he’s covered by peace and hears the Holy Spirit whisper, **“When you follow my GPS, God’s plan of salvation, there’s always an adventure, there’s always a story, and there’s always a lesson.”** The tone is warm, down-to-earth, and straight-talking—perfect for anyone in recovery who connects with faith-based encouragement but doesn’t want heavy theology lectures.
You’ll get a memorable metaphor you can carry into your own choices: which route are you on, and whose directions are you trusting day to day? If you’re wrestling with old patterns, shame, or just feeling lost on your recovery road, this bite-sized story might be the nudge you need to check your internal GPS and choose a different path.
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