Probably I'm one of very few people in the world who can live in a city for 28 years and still gets lost in that city every time.

No, I'm not blaming the layout of the city. I'm not blaming the signages or lack of it. I'm not blaming the traffic.

I take full responsibility for my models. The worst experience was when I was supposed to be at a

funeral downtown conducting it.

One of the dear precious saints of this church.

And I gave myself plenty of time knowing what might happen.

And after wandering around the city for quite a while, I looked at my watch and it was seven minutes to the service and I'm on the other side of the city,

literally on the opposite side of the city. The more I try to improvise, the more I think that I can

take a shortcut, and the more I think that I can do this or do the other thing, it got worse, not better.

What saved the day, it was a high-rise building, and I knew my destination is very close to

that building.

So that building became the place to which I kept my eyes focused.

Every time I got away from that building, I knew I'm away from my destination. Every

time I came near that building, I knew that I was getting close. And as long as my eyes

was on that target, all of my failures and all of my foibles and all of my setbacks

are going to be redeemed and they're going to be overcome.

Why?

Because the target kept me on going in the right direction in spite of the setbacks.

And that's exactly what the Apostle John is saying to us in the first 14 verses of 1 John chapter 2. I hope you

turn to it. And the first 14 verses of chapter 2, John gives us now landmarks, signposts,

along life at its best. These landmarks, we're all going to encounter. You will, you will, you will,

and I will. John gives us the signage to know if we are on the right track spiritually or not.

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