I Got This...

A couple of years back I had a job at a camp as a lifeguard. I must admit, it wasn't the best job I'd ever had but I had a great boss. For the most part I worked up at the pool but every now and then the lifeguards had to be down at the water front. One day my boss had myself and another lifeguard go pull weeds down on the beach to clear it up. He told me that it wouldn't take more than an hour and that once we did that we were done for the day. Before he could finish we were out the door and on the beach. After about  4 hours and a lot of sweating we were almost finished. I thought to myself,  "So much for an easy job, and we were told it would take an hour at most, yeah right." My boss ended up coming by as we were finishing up and told us that we didn't have to do everything that we did, it was only a small section we were suppose to clear. I asked him why he let us do all that and he said because we never asked. Oh the frustration! How much time and frustration could I have saved myself if I would have only asked?

That's how life is sometimes, we get ourselves into sticky situations and messes because we don't ask.

Joshua 9 tells of a time when the Israelites got themselves into a sticky situation. They were told to go and wipe out EVERYONE in the land and because they didn't ask God they couldn't do that. They ended up getting tricked into making a covenant with the Gibeonites - their neighbors - saying that they wouldn't kill them.

Joshua 9:14 - The men of Israel sampled their provisions BUT DID NOT INQUIRE OF THE LORD.

What bad choices have I made all because I didn't ask God what to do? How much heartache would I have saved myself?  How much healthier would I be? See, God cares about every detail in our lives, no matter how big or small, and he has a plan for them and the only way to know that plan is to ask.

So before you act, stop and check with the the boss, he'll let you know what to do.

Coach Luis