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lead us away from the edge. But so often we don’t make that connection with God. We don’t call. We don’t seek His guidance. We don’t ask Him for wisdom. We don’t consider His perspective. And too often we fall in over our heads because of it. Lot, Abraham’s nephew in the Bible, ended up being captured by the enemy because he chose to live in land that he thought was good (Genesis 13:10-11), but it was among wicked people (Genesis 13:13). He chose what he thought was best rather than what was God’s best. How many times do people walk out from under God’s umbrella of protection and away from His best, all because they have chosen what they think is best for their lives? They don’t ask for His wisdom and His direction. Haven’t we all done that at one time or another? And just because we have walked with the Lord for some time doesn’t make us immune to this problem. We may think we know God’s will for a situation today because of what His will was the last time we asked. But what worked last year might not be the same thing He would direct us to do now. We always need to ask God for wisdom and guidance. The things of God can only be discerned in the spirit. But the natural man doesn’t get this. He can’t. “The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Corinthians 2:14). Have you ever observed someone with no wisdom clearly doing the wrong thing or making a foolish decision? The consequences are crystal clear to you, but they don’t see it at all. It’s always easier to see a lack of wisdom in others than it is to see it in ourselves. That’s why we must pray daily for wisdom.