Decisions? | Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Decisions?
Everybody has to make a decision at some point in their lives and I believe all of us made a decision very young in our lives such as whether we choose to obey our parents, older siblings, what type of food to eat, clothes to wear and and somehow, i believe that we enjoyed making decisions cause it seem to make us feel grown-up. However, as we grew older, we began to dread making decisions and we tend to push decision-making rights to someone else and try to get ourselves out of that situation and only when we don't have any choice at all, we make a decision based on popular or general concensus, That started me thinking along these lines.
I think this is because we hated the responsibility that comes along with the decisions. We don't like to make decisions that are unpopular and yet most of the time, it seem to us that we are making these type of decisions that we slowly but surely phased out of making decisions even to the extent of going where to eat and what to do and we always rely on our friends because in that sense, they will bear the responsibility instead of us when the decisions turn out to be ill-fated or unpopular at best. However, there will come a time when we have to make the greatest decision such as believing and accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of our lives and second to that, our lifelong partner.
For me personally, the two great questions that I have been asking myself is my direction in life and my lifelong partner. For unknown reasons, these two seem to be very far out of my life though i spend time thinking and rethinking about it and i still have no answer regarding them for quite a considerable period of time. I have been praying for it as long as i could remember for the past 10-12 years but no answer came. Recently, i think God has given me some sort of answer though it was not the ones that i expected. My expectations of answers from God was that i want God to tell me specifically to tell me which countries to go, which ministries to serve and should I carry on waiting for the girl i like and love? God did not reply to me any of my questions but instead, He made me realise one thing and that is whether i have been asking guidance from a wise guru or whether i m trusting God that He will walk with me in spite of the decisions i make for myself.
I realised that God is a gentle God and He will not make decisions on our behalf. The best example of this is our free will to choose whether to accept Him as our personal Lord and Savior. He does not push us though He convicts us of His deep love He has for us. He does not push us though many a times, we push our friends to accept Him but He allows us to make decisions and even when our decisions are clearly wrong, He does not condemn us but instead, He will make everything right in His own eyes and in ours too when we surrender it all to Him. I realise one thing though that every time i delayed in making a decision is because i do not want to make a decision that i regretted and that is why i keep on praying and seeking answers from God so that when God makes a decision for me, it's the best decision and God can never go wrong and that is why i keep on waiting for God to move in my life.
However, God does not seem to move in that way. He waits for us to make a decision and then He will open doors for us to see and that is what has been impressing on my heart for the past two weeks that God is waiting for me to do just that. I was afraid of my wrong and maybe even harmful decisions but God reminded me of Joseph's brothers where they clearly made the wrong and even evil decisions but God intervened and made it everything right in the end and it is also through them that Israel was saved and delivered indirectly and this teaches me one thing that if I surrender myself to God, God is faithful and just and He will carry me through. As for the person I like very much and still love, i believe that anticipation and expectation will do for me just fine for everything has its own time and i believe that time is coming soon and i am waiting for it as a man awaits for the greatest gift that God can ever give Him. I wait and makes my decisions and I pray that you too will wait and make a decision that you are happy in making too. God bless and enjoy your time with God alone.
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