STEERING WHEEL

“So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.” Genesis 6:14–16

It must have been late 2012 or thereabouts. I was driving Mum to Murang’a, and let me tell you — I was so proud. Proud in my own car. You know those moments where you just breathe in deeply and whisper, “God, you’ve been good to me”? That was it. What a proud moment it was.

In front of us that day was a very similar car to the one in this photo, My Toyota 91…as they were known…. But suddenly, right before our eyes, something happened. His steering rack dislodged from the wheels. Woooi! He may have been carrying his family. And before you could process, the car lost control completely. It swerved, and just like that, it went down into a valley on the right.

That image has never left my mind. A whole car, powerful, well-built, shiny, moving smoothly — but the steering wheel was disconnected from the system that guided it. Without control, it became helpless.

Now fast-forward with me into Scripture. When Noah was given instructions by God to build the ark, the details were very clear.

The dimensions are there. The material is there. The rooms are there. Even the door is there. But have you ever read anywhere that Noah was told to build a steering wheel for the ark?

Haaa… please, think about that. Why should it have one?

Because when God is the One on the Steer, you really don’t need the wheel. Eeeh, allow me to preach this a little bit. When God is in control, you don’t need to keep struggling to take control yourself.

That ark carried Noah, his family, and every living creature that God wanted preserved. It faced rains that had never been seen before. Waters that covered mountains. Winds that tossed it about. Yet with no steering, no rudder, no human control system — it never missed its destination. Why? Because the hand of God was its Steer.

And isn’t that just like our lives? Sometimes we panic because we feel out of control. The steering rack dislodges — maybe it’s in our health, maybe in our family, maybe in our finances. And we feel like the whole thing is headed straight into the valley. But if God is the One steering, He will keep you afloat, He will preserve you, He will land you safely on His mountain of promise.

Proverbs 3:5–6 reminds us: “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.”

You don’t need to have your hand on every wheel of life. You don’t need to have figured out every route, every turn, every road. When God is on the Steer, you can rest.

The same God who guided an ark with no steering wheel across a global flood is the same God who can guide your life through every storm.

So let Him drive. Let Him take over. And just watch — He will carry you safely, to where He has destined you to be.