Saving me from my own foolishness.

Have you ever thanked God for not doing something you had asked Him to do? Have you ever thanked Him for not giving you the opportunity to say something you had intended to say or to make something you had intended to do not work out? Have you ever had one of those moments when you feel so strongly and deeply how very foolish you are and how very wise God is?

These things are, of course, ones I have experienced recently. I have been dealing for weeks now with a challenging and complicated situation. One that I really had no idea what to do about and hardly even understood what I thought or felt about. I prayed to God continually for wisdom and to guide my every thought and feeling and action pertaining to this situation. In all my prayers, however, I never head any answers. I felt as though God was leaving me to act according to my own best judgment. But not so. He was acting; He was answering my prayers, just in an entirely different manner than I had expected. He kept me from saying and doing many things I had decided to in this situation. He kept me from it until I discovered enough information about all that was going on to understand that the things I had meant to say and do would have been very foolish indeed. He asnwered my prayers for wisdom by saving me from my own foolishness.