It use to be back in the day that when you wanted to get about from one place to another to which you might not be too familiar with the route to go, you would need to either consult a map or consult a friend beforehand, or God forbid, ask for directions at a gas station or similar when lost. Nowadays, those types of things are best handled by GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) service which is remarkably accurate and a great assistance in finding your way from one unfamiliar destination to another. A person can access GPS via his cell phone, a dedicated GPS device from Garmin or similar, or through an integrated device such as OnStar or similar. All of these devices work quite well and their accuracy in dealing with a moving vehicle in real-time is absolutely astonishing. That is to say, when you are driving your vehicle down a road, the typical GPS knows your location within thirty to fifty feet of your actual location, it also knows the speed of your vehicle in real-time with an accuracy which is quite impressive because it is constantly calculating the distance traveled by time spent traveling that distance. This means, that the GPS is extremely accurate in knowing your position and therefore gives you adequate time to respond to its verbal directions when it comes to making a turn, in fact, some GPS systems, will actually emit a beep-beep sound when your designated turn is almost upon you, as well as if you miss your turn, the GPS within just a few moments will recognize this and will thereby re-route you.
All of this is to the good, and the fact that GPS devices are pretty much universal and affordable makes it even better. In fact, GPS is so powerful, that if your car should breakdown in an unfamiliar area, or because of your panicked emotional condition, you aren't able to readily figure out exactly where you are, a call to a towing service with the appropriate GPS monitoring equipment will allow them to track your position by utilizing the GPS positioning of your cell phone. While on the one hand that sounds phenomenal and a welcomed relief, on the other hand, that might raise a few questions as to how many other people or organizations have the same power to track exactly where you are at a given time on a given day. In this hi-technology age, this means that not too surprisingly, there are devices and application software readily available that can track your exact location through the GPS on your smart-phone. The ability to do so comes down to having the right equipment and/or as simple as putting application software onto the subject smart-phone. This means, in effect, if you are a juvenile and you have a smart-phone that your parents or guardians may have applied this application to the smart-phone that you are using, without notification to yourself. This means too if as part of your employment, your company provides you with a smart-phone that buried deep within the terms and conditions of such, and while using semantics that obfuscate the reality of it, your company may have granted themselves permission to monitor where you are at, at all times. Further to all this, this means that if your significant other buys you a smart-phone, he might very well decide that as part of the gift of this phone to you, he might believe that he is entitled to apply an application onto the phone that will enable him to track you at all times.
In situations in which you are lost, or in unfamiliar territory, or your car breaks down, you will be grateful for the power of your GPS. However, when you are being monitored through your GPS by a person or entity that has taken upon themselves, God-like powers, you will rue that a power such as this is in the hands of the unprincipled, rather than just in the hands of God Himself.