The following comes from my book, Amazing
Stories & Daily Devotionals.
A friend of
mine, Keith, worked for a construction company one summer when he was in high
school. One day, his foreman told him to drive a dump truck to another town and
fill the water tank in back. He had never driven a truck that size and only
had a learner’s license.
On the way,
a crew was paving one of the lanes, so he bypassed it by driving down the
other side of the road. There he met a car coming his way, which meant he
had to back up the huge truck down one narrow lane for half a mile. That’s
when the man driving the other car started SCREAMING and waving his arms.
Keith
stopped backing up—just a few inches from rolling over the edge of a 10-foot
drop into a creek. The truck was off the pavement with one of the tires
hanging in mid-air! Listening to man shouting at him averted a disaster.
We don’t
like people shouting at us, but sometimes we need to listen. It just might be
wisdom calling out to us. Solomon wrote, “Wisdom shouts in the street, she lifts her voice in
the square; at the head of the noisy streets she cries out” (Prov. 1:20).
Why would
wisdom need to shout at us? Because that’s the only way some people will listen.
A stranger hollered at my friend. Because he listened, it kept him from wrecking
a truck and possibly kept him out of the hospital. The next time someone raises
a voice at you, stop for a moment and listen. It just might be wisdom trying to
keep you from disaster.
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