"So be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid
and do not panic before them. For the Lord your God will personally go
ahead of you. He will neither fail you nor abandon you."
How many times do we all say that we wish we had more time to sit down
and get some strategic thinking time? It used to be that an airplane was the only
time I felt I could really sit and think but now with extended life
batteries, power jacks and Go-Go s it feels like that time has
been taken from us too. Yet, we know that we need the time to think
ahead and that those who do take this time are the ones who seem to have
it all under control. Those who scramble and are always thinking on the
fly, miss important points and inevitably will have an important ball
dropped, and that is never good. So, we can all be better by finding the
time to think ahead; to think strategically. It is not only hard because we can’t find the
time, but it is also many times because we have a hard time starting. It
takes some courage to start and get the ball rolling, especially when
our backs are not up against the wall. Thinking ahead, planning strategically, and
being ready is a skill we should all strive to perfect.
This is a place where God
wants to have us bring Him to work. In Deuteronomy, God shows us how He
not only stands behind and next to us, but He will also go ahead of us
if we allow Him to do so; "So be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid
and do not panic before them. For the Lord your God will personally go
ahead of you. He will neither fail you nor abandon you." What a great
promise God provides the Israelites and each of us. Today, let us let
God go before us and then we can begin to start thinking strategically ahead with Him
there with us.
Reference: Deuteronomy 31:6 (New Living Testament)
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