A while ago, my best friend, Heather, and I participated in an urban scavenger hunt-style race. The goal was to solve 12 challenges faster than any other team. Each challenge consisted of solving a riddle and getting yourself to the solution (by foot or public transportation only) and taking a photo. For example, we had to take a photo of ourselves in front of the second oldest building on the campus of a local college.

My BFF and I headed out wearing our FCA Endurance “Competing for Christ” team gear, and our Camelbacks. As we made our way through the city streets, we found that our gear was generating great conversations with strangers. Hours into the race, Heather and I were on our way to accomplishing our last challenge—what we thought was to take a photo doing the Hula with a prop. Because we are both believers, we knew that, if God wanted to, He is so powerful that He could bring someone in a grass skirt to us! Yes, it was a silly race, but we knew without a doubt that God could do anything.

Eventually, we ended up finding a prop, so we took a photo and headed for the finish line. When we arrived, the race director began confirming our finds. To our surprise, he asked us where our photo was of us doing the limbo. Confused, we replied, “Limbo? We thought we needed to do the hula!” He explained how we were wrong in solving the riddle, and that the limbo was the known Hawaiian dance originally from Trinidad.

Heather and I just looked at each other and laughed. You see, we’d been looking for God to bring us what we thought we needed (a grass skirt and the hula dance) and had missed God’s PERFECT provision of what we really needed. Get this. We had actually walked by a family of four randomly doing the limbo under a chain in an empty parking lot about 20 minutes prior to finishing our race!

What a great reminder for us all. In our human minds, we often think we know what we need and go about relentlessly pursuing it. But do we ever stop and ask God if that’s really what we should be doing? He is the One with the perfect plan—the answers to all of our riddles in life. And only when we are seeking His wisdom and truly asking Him for direction will we find what we really need.

Today, don’t end up with a hula when you need a limbo. Seek God and His wisdom, and let the Holy Spirit take you in the right direction.