Asking God For Wisdom To Make Right Choices

The story is told of six mean looking motorcyclists who pulled into a highway café parking lot late one evening. Inside the café, they found only a waitress, a cook, and a truck driver — a little guy who was sitting on a counter stool quietly eating his supper.

The motorcyclists were angry at the truck driver, because they believed that he had purposefully cut them off several miles back. They decided to take out their revenge on the innocent trucker. They took his food away from him, mocked him, laughed in his face, and called him some terrible names.

The little truck driver said nothing, but simply stood up, paid for his food, and walked out the café entrance.

The motorcyclists were unhappy that they hadn’t succeeded in provoking the little man into a fist fight. One of them said to the waitress, “He sure wasn’t much of a man, was he?”

The waitress replied, “I guess not.” Then while looking out the window, she added, “I guess he’s not much of a truck driver either. He just ran over six motorcycles on his way out of the parking lot!”

Beloved, the majority of the problems that we face in life are many times, those of our own making — either through things we have said or done, or things we haven’t said or done.

There’s no better time than the present for us to ask God to provide us with the wisdom needed to make right choices that will keep us away from any future trouble (James 1:5; cf. Proverbs 2).

—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets