Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Foreign.
[00:00:10] Welcome back to the weekday podcast. This is Bobby. Super grateful you're here today. I wonder if there's ever been a time when you had the perfect response ready, but something stopped you from sending it. Now, there's a part of Elisha's story that does not make it on many of the highlight reels.
[00:00:25] After God opens the servant's eyes, after the Chariots of Fire, after that dramatic reveal, the enemy army actually comes marching down towards Elisha. And Elisha doesn't run, he doesn't fight. Instead, he prays. He asks God to strike the army with blindness. And God does it. And then Elisha, and this is the part that gets me, he walks right up to the blinded enemy force and he says, follow me. I'll take you to the man you're looking for. And he leads them straight to the heart of Israel's capital city.
[00:00:53] When they arrive, the king of Israel sees them and immediately knows what to do. Shall I kill them? Shall I kill them? He asked. And Elisha says no. Which is crazy, right? No, he says, to feed them and to send them home a feast is what ended the war. That band of enemies, they never came back again. Now, here's the question. If Elisha hadn't stopped to ask God what to do, what would have happened? And every human instinct in that moment says, crush the enemy. You have the advantage. Use it. And if Elisha had followed his instincts or the king's instincts, that conflict would have escalated. The war would have continued. But God's move was entirely different. It was counterintuitive, something nobody would have put on a whiteboard. I think about how often we're standing in that same moment. The situation is in front of us, the adrenaline is up, the drafted response is ready, and the one thing we haven't done is to stop and ask God. God, what do you want me to ask, actually do?
[00:01:51] Before you send that message, before you have that conversation, before you make the move that you've been rehearsing, stop and ask.
[00:01:59] The next move God is asking you to make is probably not the one you drafted, right? So today, I just want to encourage you, before you move, before you click send, ask God. God, what would you want me to do? Have a great day. We'll see you back here tomorrow.
[00:02:22] Sam.
