Pray. Wait. Proceed.

In Virginia, late June 1864, a Union regiment from the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry began digging a tunnel under the Rebel fortifications. The soldiers dug for nearly a month to construct a horizontal shaft over 500 feet long. At the end of the tunnel, they ran two  side tunnels, totaling 75 feet along the Confederate lines to maximize the destruction. Four tons of gunpowder filled the drifts, and the stage was set...

Union soldiers lit the fuse before dawn on July 30. The explosion blew up a Confederate battery and creating a crater 170 feet long, 60 to 80 feet wide, and 30 feet deep. However, the Union was unprepared to exploit the gap. The Yankees, 15 thousand in number, ran into the crater rather than around it. Part of the Rebel line was captured, but the Confederates that gathered from each side fired down on the Yankees. The whole "shooting fish in a barrel" thing! They did not think about how they would get out beforehand.

The Battle of the Crater essentially marked the end of  Major General Burnside’s military career, and on April 15, 1865, he resigned from the army. 

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I love history!  It can be fun or sometimes sad.  History can teach us the right or wrong ways to accomplish things.  The histories of certain people still echo today with hate (Hitler), genius (Einstein), stupidity (Major General Burnside), bravery (Rosa Parks), or even love (Jesus Christ).  History is important to us today; the Bible is HIStory!

Rom. 15:4 says "whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope."

Psalm 78:3-4 "Things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done." 

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What I learned from this historical event is that sometimes I don't pray things through.  I go for it, blow it up and get stuck in the hole!  
In short I can be an idiot.  Trapped in my own stupidity. 
There is an easy answer though...

James 1:5 says If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. 

It really is that simple!  Pray.  Wait. Proceed.  


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