Ezekiel 6:15

I will use my power against them and destroy the land, from the desert to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Thought for the day – When will they learn?

I was watching the movie Sully recently. It's the movie about the pilot that landed his passenger jet in the Hudson River in New York. And one of the things that struck me most about that was just how people seemed to think that they knew better than Sully did about what had happened. The simulations, everything, just seemed to be rigged against Sully and his co-pilot. And it got me thinking about when will we learn. The whole point of the movie was about the bravery of Sully and his courage to stand up and be counted and stand up for the truth. And yet the authorities seemed dead set to disprove him. 

When would they learn? 

And it also got me thinking about how it takes something really horrible happening for us to stop and think about what's gone wrong. 

When will we learn?

So again in the news today there was an article about one of our National Health Service trusts and the care that it gives to mothers and newborn babies. And how that care had fallen far short of what people expected. And so an inquiry is being launched to discover what happened. 

When will we learn?

God's words to the people of Israel today, I will use my power against them and destroy the land from the desert to Dibla, then they will know that I am the Lord, is an example of how it takes a catastrophe before we learn. And surely we as people have the intelligence to think through our actions to come to the logical conclusion but we as Christians have something additional to simply logic. We have the Holy Spirit who is able to guide us and provide us with the information and the discernment that we need to make sure that we don't get to a point where there are lessons to be learned because things have gone horribly wrong. 

So today will you allow the Holy Spirit to speak to you. To speak into situations that might be heading south, but with a bit of forethought and prayer and a bit of discernment, we'll be able to pull up. So that we don't have to have an inquiry about something that's gone horribly wrong.