Romans 11: 33 – 34 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?

What has God told you not to do but you are still arguing with him about it? You have approached the situation from every angle you can think of and the solution you are about to implement seems the best one, but you have doubts. Why proceed? You are in fact being disobedient to the Holy Spirit. “But…………..” you say.

Often the Holy Spirit will guide you to abandon what seems like a perfectly reasonable course of action. Let me illustrate: A year after I bought a new car I was travelling home one cold, foggy winter night. The traffic had stalled on the 59^th Street Bridge in New York. There are two entrances to the upper level of the bridge and the two streams of traffic merge at a certain point. As I got to that point, a motorist in an SUV decided to create a third lane for himself trying to get ahead of me. As a result he ended up leaving an almost full length streak of missing paint and slight dents on my car. The stupidity of it set my blood boiling. I stopped and release my door lock. Just then the Holy Spirit spoke: “Do not get out of the car.” That was not a rational response but I obeyed. The driver eventually eased up and fell in line behind me because there was no place for him to go. I could not see who it was or how many people were in that vehicle. We crawled our way off the bridge. He went his way and I went mine.

The damage did not render the car useless, just unsightly. The fact is that had I insisted on waiting for the cops to come, it would have taken hours, tempers would have flared and the situation could have gotten very ugly as all the other unhappy drivers would have joined in persecuting me, a woman alone at night. No thanks! Two years later, the Lord engineered a situation where the damage was fixed at no cost to me.

The point is, God does know best and he knows the outcome of every situation. So, exercise your faith, hand him the present crisis on a platter and step back. And remember to thank him when it is resolved.