You’d think I would have learned the first time, but you would be wrong. Last year I shared the story of accidentally gluing my fingers together with Superglue and then getting the bright idea to cut them apart with a knife. It didn’t go so well. How can you forget something like that? Yet, either my memory has to get better or my Superglue skills, because I did it again.
Again, my first idea was to cut my fingers apart with a knife. But this time, instead of a gigantic chef’s machete, I got out a tiny, super sharp, Swiss Army knife. I thought, “I’ll just carefully saw at it and cut the glue.”
It didn’t go very well . . . again. And when it became apparent that I wasn’t cutting just the glue, I finally decided to stop and ask for directions. I grabbed my phone and Googled “how to get Superglue off skin.” And the answer was right there! Easy peasy. I used olive oil and it worked!
Yet, the way we do one thing is pretty much the way we do everything, whether it’s our spiritual path or everyday life – which actually IS our spiritual path. So while I’d like to say that whenever it’s time to make a decision, I stop and ask The One who knows best, I don’t. And then it doesn’t go so well.
“This is your major problem. You still make up your own mind and then decide to ask what you should do.” (CE:T-30,I.4:1-2)
Why do we completely forget that it didn’t go so well the last time we tried to work things out on our own? It seems to me that our whole experience here could be a lot easier if we just treated the Holy Spirit like Google.