Have you ever taken a personality test? How do you answer this true/false question:
I make decisions easily.If you're like me, you think to yourself, "Ooo. Hard question. I'll come back to that one." Then you move on and answer the rest of the questions.
Quite honestly, I am not a good decision-maker. I vacillate, weigh the pros and cons, weigh them again, visualize the end results, ask for opinions, make charts, draw graphs. My famous motto is this: I'll know it when I see it.
And in the end, that's often what happens. Eventually I get a gut feeling and make a decision. Most of the time I'm happy with said decision. And I have to say that I am happy with my choices about 99% of the time.
Now, please don't credit me with being some sort of genius or spiritual guru. I am neither, I assure you. But there comes a time in every decision-making process when you finally know.
I would like to tell you that this gut feeling I get comes from a rich prayer life, a commitment to reading chapters upon chapters of the Bible every day and a period of fasting. It doesn't.
But my gut feeling usually comes after I've given up on the charts, graphs and coin-flipping and just ask God. It's nothing fancy. I don't use big words. I don't kneel. Sometimes I don't even close my eyes or bow my head. (it's kind of hard to drive if you pray with your eyes closed!) Usually it goes something like this: "God, what should I do?" Or sometimes it's more like this: "God if I do blank, then blank might happen. What do you think?" Or "God, I don't have peace about choosing blank."
Then, some time later, after I've really just laid it out there at God's feet, I get my gut feeling. Sometimes it's within a few seconds. Sometimes it's months later. The waiting part really bites, but I'm getting used to it.
So I guess what I want to tell you about decision-making is this: when making a decision, there's only one right decision to make. And that's the decision to lay it out there for God's direction and input. Sure, you can go ahead and make your pro/con lists, draw your graphs and flip your coins. Sometimes He uses those things to nudge you in the right direction. But, please, please decide to talk to Him.
