OPTIONAL ACCESSORY II: “Normally accidents like this shouldn’t happen,” reasoned a Caputh, Germany, police spokesman. A motorist following driving instructions on the satellite navigation computer in his BMW drove down a ferry ramp into the Havel River, he said, without realizing the only way he could cross the river was to wait for the ferry. The 57-year-old driver was not injured. “This sort of thing can happen when people rely too much on technology,” the police spokesman said. (Reuters) . . .Leading to a required label, “Warning: User still must watch out window when driving.”

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Isn’t this true in our spiritual life? Aren’t we, too, heading for catastrophe, when we rely too much on ourselves, instead of on God and His Bible?