A Sixth Sense

This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ ” – Jeremiah 6:16.

God, whom I serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God’s will the way may be opened for me to come to you. – Romans 1:9-10.

At Fort Lincoln, on June 25, 1876, the women of the garrison assembled in the quarter’s of an officer’s wife. They all felt strangely apprehensive. Someone prayed, and they started to sing “Nearer My God To Thee,” but couldn’t finish it. On July 5 they learned that at the very hour they had met, their loved ones were dying on the bluffs above the Little Big Horn River in Montana.

Golda Meir intuitively felt danger when Russian advisers evacuated their families from Syria in 1973, but her intelligence chiefs and generals dissuaded her. Her political contacts in other countries concurred, so she didn’t order mobilization—and regretted it ever after. She should have listened to her heart, she wrote, and ordered her army mobilized. Nothing anyone could say afterwards in consolation would comfort her.

Christians should be ingeniously intuitive, enlightened as we are by the Holy Spirit. He enables us to distinctly resolve difficult questions; to perceive spiritual danger in an innocent temptation; and to see sin while it is still a principle, before it becomes a practice. However, while intuition can bring to our attention the facts needed to make a decision, we must will the decision.

Courtesy of Speaker’s Sourcebook of New Illustrations by Virgil Hurley © 1995 by Word, Incorporated.
Unless otherwise noted, Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV © 2011 by Biblica, Inc.®
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