Every once in a while I run across an extraordinary story of
how the Holy Ghost can guide and protect.
Stan Cronin’s story is one of these.
It’s a story of how he was guided by the Holy Ghost to where he could do some
good as a Phoenix police officer and protected with specific instructions in such
a way that he came through a very tricky situation, while if he had gone
strictly according to his training he would most certainly have been killed.
Several features stick out to me about his story.
--He was in a habit of consistently praying for guidance as
to where to go to do good.
--He was not afraid to look silly.
--He received specific promptings to do things contrary to
his training, things that seemed risky and weird to him. He anticipated becoming a statistic and
a training case study of what not to
do. But he had the humility to
follow these impressions, and he trusted the Lord had a good reason.
--He had to deal not only with a potentially dangerous
situation, but also with the tension of knowing he was going “off script” from
standard operating procedures, yet he didn’t give up and dismiss additional
impressions as they came. He saw
things through to the end, continuing to follow guidance from the Holy
Ghost.
We believe keeping the commandments will bring us safety and peace. We know rules and standard operating procedures are very helpful for bringing order and much safety to our lives. A well-trained police officer with integrity would expected to hold to that line. And yet, we see in the particular situation of this story, that would have gotten him killed. The only way he escaped was by following the Holy Ghost.
It strikes me that the above features can be applied in each
of our lives too, no matter our field of labor. We can cultivate a habit of praying for guidance to do good.
We can practice humility and learn to trust promptings. We can recognize the
tension we might feel if we’re off-script when following the Spirit and choose
to continue to trust to the end.
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