With dawn just breaking, I peered out the window at leaden skies. It rained most of the night,
and I wondered if it would again. I wanted to ride my bike around the island,
but being on a bike in a downpour is not much fun. Besides getting soaked to
the bone, you can’t see for the rain pelting your eyeballs. Plus, my
respiratory issues had only recently come under control. I didn’t want to set
the stage for getting sick again. The prudent thing was to stay home.
But this was our last day here and my heart longed for a little
adventure outside the confines of our four walls.
Maybe I needed to let caution go.
I went.
Here’s what I would have missed if I’d stayed home.
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| The beach and the marsh were at king tide. |
Oswald Chambers said this, “God sometimes allows you to get into a place of testing where your own welfare would be the right and proper thing to consider if you were not living a life of faith; but if you are, you will joyfully waive your right and leave God to choose for you.”
In the larger context, we may face situations where prudence would call
us to do one thing, but if we’re prayerful, we could see God might call us to
do something else . . . to let caution go.
That’s a hard ask for someone like me who has a tendency to suffer from
the paralysis of analysis. I just want to walk around a decision and weigh
every possible outcome. I want to make the right decision . . . the wise decision.
However, if we can go with God in faith, that’s when we often encounter
the amazing―
perhaps something like the rainbow, the egret, and the king tide.
Maybe you’re facing what seems leaden skies today and you’re wondering . . . should I or shouldn’t I.
Pray, listen for God and how He will lead you. Chambers again, “We have to learn to walk according to the standard which has its eye on God.”
“The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail” (Isaiah 58:11).
“The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail” (Isaiah 58:11).
