Your gut knows best.
Much of the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell is about trusting intuition. He proposes that your first impression is probably the right one.
He makes a compelling case and I firmly believe that as a follower of Christ we have access to the wisdom of God (Colossians 3:16, 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2 Corinthians 5:21, Colossians 1:9). So over the years I have learned to trust that wisdom and followed my gut, what I believe is a God given sense.
I was asked to contribute to a book by a great friend in ministry last year(ish). It was a great opportunity and would have been fun to be involved but something didn’t sit well in that ‘gastro intestinal’ area. The topic was one I could have written on but had limited experience with.
It came down to this; would my senior pastor agree philosophically with what I wrote? I decided no. He may do in the future – and I am in the process of starting in our ministry what I would written about – but timing is everything
So I passed it up.
I’m sure he was disappointed and I hate to let people down, but I just can’t go against the gut!
