Thursday, April 19, 2007
Midnight Reflections on Decision-Making
"Decisions are hard because the choice of one thing means the death of something else. "
...or so I was told recently. Decision-making is one part of life that I never seem to get along with very well. Fortunately God has been teaching me about it a lot lately.
"God cares more about our daily decisions than He does about where we are." -my roommate
"You can choose to be happy wherever you are." -also my roommate
"While many of us long for God to give us a map so that we can simply follow it, He instead gives us a compass that points the way." -Erwin McManus
" What we continually ask for is to know God's will for our lives; what God offers us is His wisdom for our lives." -McManus
"The problem is not that we don't know what to do, but that we don't do what we know. The key to the future is obedience. When we submit our lives to what God has made known, the future becomes clearer." -McManus (I really like this guy, if you haven't noticed)
"When God is you desire, you can trust the passions of your heart." -McManus
In the chaos that has bombarded my thoughts this week, I am reminded that one of God's greatest gift to us is Himself. Whether I go to Prague, Greenville, the moon, wherever, He promises He will go with me. In fact, He is already there, taking care of things I may not ever know about. It's easy to think that if you choose the "wrong path," that you have royally screwed up and will suffer the consequences forever. But I've begun to realize that wherever I am, God is there, and I can continue growing and abiding in Him. And He will somehow get me where He wants me anyway. I'm really just amazed right now at how blessed I am, at how fortunate I am to even have options like these. To have options at all.
I've been thinking a lot lately about the free will God gives us. Sometimes it unnerves me because I have to make decisions using whatever knowledge and wisdom I have and then take responsibility for those decisions. A friend recently mentioned how yes we have free will, but God just puts us where He wants us anyway. These seemed like to conflicting ideas, but then I thought, maybe free will is the freedom to choose to allow God to send you wherever He pleases.
So that's where I am this week. I'm going to walk down the open doors as far as they go, knowing that God is right there beside me.
...or so I was told recently. Decision-making is one part of life that I never seem to get along with very well. Fortunately God has been teaching me about it a lot lately.
"God cares more about our daily decisions than He does about where we are." -my roommate
"You can choose to be happy wherever you are." -also my roommate
"While many of us long for God to give us a map so that we can simply follow it, He instead gives us a compass that points the way." -Erwin McManus
" What we continually ask for is to know God's will for our lives; what God offers us is His wisdom for our lives." -McManus
"The problem is not that we don't know what to do, but that we don't do what we know. The key to the future is obedience. When we submit our lives to what God has made known, the future becomes clearer." -McManus (I really like this guy, if you haven't noticed)
"When God is you desire, you can trust the passions of your heart." -McManus
In the chaos that has bombarded my thoughts this week, I am reminded that one of God's greatest gift to us is Himself. Whether I go to Prague, Greenville, the moon, wherever, He promises He will go with me. In fact, He is already there, taking care of things I may not ever know about. It's easy to think that if you choose the "wrong path," that you have royally screwed up and will suffer the consequences forever. But I've begun to realize that wherever I am, God is there, and I can continue growing and abiding in Him. And He will somehow get me where He wants me anyway. I'm really just amazed right now at how blessed I am, at how fortunate I am to even have options like these. To have options at all.
I've been thinking a lot lately about the free will God gives us. Sometimes it unnerves me because I have to make decisions using whatever knowledge and wisdom I have and then take responsibility for those decisions. A friend recently mentioned how yes we have free will, but God just puts us where He wants us anyway. These seemed like to conflicting ideas, but then I thought, maybe free will is the freedom to choose to allow God to send you wherever He pleases.
So that's where I am this week. I'm going to walk down the open doors as far as they go, knowing that God is right there beside me.
# posted by Jessica @ 5:15 AM 
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