Episode 440 - Show Notes
- As we look back over our lives, we have all made decisions we regret, we are all human and we have a great potential to make mistakes. In fact – we all make mistakes. We wait too long. We pay too much. We say the wrong thing. We open our mouths and insert our foot. All of us do stupid things. But the wise man learns from the mistakes he makes. I hope and pray that we all learn from our mistakes and that we can make better decisions next time.
- Life is a series of choices, of decisions. Over the course of your life you’ll make a lot of decisions. You’ll make small, incidental decisions, but you’ll also make life-changing, life-impacting decisions. It’s here that we often get stuck.
- Because our decisions carry consequences, we want to be sure to make the right decisions. But how do you know what is the right thing to do? It’s here that we struggle with indecision. Have you ever had a struggle with indecision? Have you ever had a time in which you just didn’t know what to do?
- Finding direction comes from admitting that we need a guide. We are often tempted to go our own way, make our own plans, and sometimes we mistakenly leave God out. Isa. 53:6 "Everyone of us have strayed away like sheep! We have left God's paths to follow our own."
- Sheep have poor vision and can’t see far ahead. They need a shepherd to lead and guide them because without direction they tend to wander off. We are like that sometimes too, aren’t we. God has promised to be our guide, but we must allow him to lead us.
- Our struggle with indecision is trusting the Lord will lead us. It’s so much easier to lean on our own understanding, but when we trust him he has promised to give us the guidance we need.
- I have often been stuck in times of indecision. Maybe that’s where you are today. Know that God can be trusted. He wants to be your guide. He will guide you in his will, if you will follow.
Proverbs 3:5-6 - "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”
James 1:5 says, “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.”
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