Tuesday – Pentateuch

Reading – Deuteronomy 1-2

Highlight Verse:

““Then you confessed, ‘We have sinned against the Lord! We will go into the land and fight for it, as the Lord our God has commanded us.’ So your men strapped on their weapons, thinking it would be easy to attack the hill country.”
‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭1‬:‭41‬ ‭NLT‬‬

A few years ago (okay, almost 30 years ago), I was driving down a freeway in a rainstorm. I rounded a curve at well below the speed limit, but water was running across the pavement so the back end of my little pickup broke loose.

A good driver would have steered into the skid just enough to maintain control.

I steered too far.

The overreaction caused me to lose control long enough to hit the guardrail. Once I had lost control, the opportunity to stay safely on the road was gone.

Israel’s overreaction caused them to be soundly defeated by the Amorites.

That was because they refused to listen to the Lord. (Verse 43)

There are times in our lives when we realize that we are in error. It’s easy to think we can correct that error by going back and doing what we were supposed to do in the first place.

Sometimes that’s the right thing to do.

Sometimes it isn’t.

Instead of jumping right back into a missed opportunity, we need to be sure that opportunity is still there.

Otherwise, we may be jumping right into a face plant (or a guardrail).

Have you ever missed an opportunity only to try to get it back and fail?
What do you do to listen to God’s guidance when you know you’ve missed and opportunity?