Welcome to One Minute Scripter Study, a Come Follow Me podcast. We are your host, Kristen Walker-Smith and Callie Black.

Hey, it's Callie Black here with today's thought. Let's open up to Judges Chapter 4, verse 14.

We have a shoe basket in our house where we keep any shoes that are used often enough to stay downstairs.

It's a good sized basket, so sometimes shoes fall to the bottom, making them a little

difficult to find. When it's time for our family to leave the house and put shoes on,

sometimes I'll notice that one of my son's shoes has fallen to the bottom of the basket.

I'll dig his shoe out and place it on top, and then I'll ask him to find his shoes and put them on.

He will then go to the shoe basket, see his shoes, and put them on all by himself.

He still finds the task difficult sometimes.

He has a vision impairment, and that's hard for him to find. But he has no idea that I made his

task much easier and much more appropriate for his abilities. This is similar to the spiritual

foresight of the mighty prophetess and judge Deborah.

Barack was terrified to go against the powerful Canaanite army, and he couldn't see the path forward that would lead to success.

But Deborah wisely said, is not the Lord gone out before thee?

In Judges, chapter 4, verse 14. She knew that if the Lord gone out before thee in Judges, Chapter 4, verse 14?

She knew that if the Lord asked them to accomplish a task, he had made it doable ahead of time.

She knew he had prepared the way, removing obstacles they might not even be aware of.

She knew, he knew exactly what their abilities

were and what they needed to succeed. It's fun to see the obvious hand of the Lord preparing our

paths when the house suddenly becomes available or that person returns your call or that teacher

has a change of mind.

But other times, we just have to trust that the Lord is preparing our paths in ways that we aren't

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