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This is where John and I share a single story to go with each week. Come follow me, Lesson John. Joseph of Egypt. Genesis chapter 37 through 41, it's your turn to give us a follow Him, Favorites story. I remember this interesting phrase in the story of Joseph when Pautifer's wife grabbed
him. As Genesis 39, 12, she caught him by his garment saying lie with me and he left his garment in her hand and fled and got him out. Remember that phrase got him out. Now rewind way back to the 20th century, probably the 70s, I am playing literally baseball
at Lindsey Gardens in Salt Lake City and I am a centerfielder. And my coach used it because we're like, I don't know, eight or nine or ten. You used to come out and yell at us, think he would just yell, think our job was to say
“something that wouldn't occur to us was, what will I do if the ball comes to me?”
This is a great skill.
Yes, it literally, I actually did, I thought there's a runner on first, there's one
out. If the ball is on the fly, I'll try to catch it, I'll throw it a second base. If it's a grounder, I'll catch it, I'll probably watch the runner throw it to second or third. I've got it all figured out.
Her picture winds up, throws the ball and the batter smacks it and it's right to me in a centerfielder. But it was a little short, I'm running forward and out of the corner of my eye, I can see the runner taking off first base. And I thought he doesn't think I'm going to catch it because you got to tag up, he got
to stay on first and tell the ball is caught.
He's running to second and I run up and I caught the ball and I winged it to the second
baseman who got the guy out, I got him out nice job. I remember coach Mark Durran running out of the dugout, scream a nice job by the way. What a great lesson that was to think first what you're going to do is something comes up because of that, I knew exactly what to do. It was like my only glory moment of literally baseball.
Hey, people don't know, John, by the way, it's quite an athlete. Oh, yeah. Thanks. Oh, my high school friends are shaking their head right now. I love the idea of think what you're going to do first, I wrote it up for the new era,
“I said, you know, when someone says think fast and throws a ball at you, right?”
So I thought a fun title would be, it's better to think first than think fast.
The new era did not like my title, so they changed it to think first act fast, but I still like it's better to think first than to think fast. I like yours better, too. That was the lesson. I knew what I was going to do before the situation came and you've probably know that lots
of church leaders have talked about that. If you feel like you're in a place where you might be tempted, what are you going to do? Think about it first, then you can get out. That's beautiful, John, you'd be crazy to think he's making this decision right now. No, he made this decision a long time ago.
This was just the moment the decision was actually public, but he had made that decision a long time ago. How could I do this? He says, how could I do this? I love it.
It can be a good skill, by the way, that if you're attempted, run. Yes. It's a way. Get out of there. Exactly.
Don't sit and think about it. Make it sharp.
“What are the advantages of this will advantage the decision here?”
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