Every day we make a decision.
Making Decisions come naturally. Sometimes, we made a wrong decision, and
regret bitterly for its consequence. There are times when we get stuck in our decision-making
process because we want to discern the will of God. God is alive and active and
is overseeing everything in our universe. Nothing, not even a speck of tiny
dust in the sunrays moves without the knowledge and will of God. As Luther
says, “Even the devil is God’s devil!”
Here in this video clip, Justin Peters
is helping us how to go ahead with our Decision Making as Christians.
Below is the transcript of
what he said:
“We
cannot interpret the Bible by what we experience, we must interpret our
experiences by the Bible, by the prophetic word made more sure.
Well,
the Bible doesn’t tell me where to go to college. The Bible doesn’t tell me who
to marry. It tells you to marry a believer, but it doesn’t really tell me who
to marry. The Bible doesn’t tell me what job to take or what house to buy or
which car I should by. The Bible doesn’t tell me, “Should I be an engineer or a
dentist?”
How
do I know God’s will for my life? How do I know God’s will for my life? Here’s
how you know God’s will for your life. Read, study, and obey God’s Word. Read,
study, and obey God’s Word. If you’re not doing that, then nothing else matters
anyway. Read, study, and obey God’s Word.
And
then if you’ve got some situation in your life, you’ve got some decision to
make and you’re not real sure what it is to do, some crisis and you’re not sure
the right thing to do, or you want to know God’s will for a particular thing
that’s going on in your life or in your church or whatever, read, studying
God’s Word, obey God’s Word. Pray for wisdom. James tell us that: “If any of
you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God.”
Now
if you’re not reading and studying and obeying God’s Word, then don’t bother
praying for wisdom, He’s not going to give it to you. But if you are, pray for
wisdom. And then, seek godly counsel. The Bible says there is wisdom, there’s
safety in a multitude of counselors. And if I’ve got something going on in my
life or my ministry and I’m not sure what to do, you know what I’m going to do?
I’m going to seek godly counsel. The first person I’m going to go to is my wife
Kathy and talk about it with her first. And if both of us together decide, you
know, we need some other voices on this, I’ve got some men in my life that I go
to from time to time; and I’ll say, “Brothers, this is what’s going on in my
life, this is what’s going on in the ministry. Give me your counsel. What do
you think?” There’s wisdom in doing that.
So
read, study, and obey God’s Word; pray for wisdom, seek godly counsel; and
then Proverbs
3:5 and 6 it: “Trust in the Lord with all of your heart, lean
not unto your own understanding. But in all of your ways acknowledge Him, and”
– He might direct your paths; He’ll direct your paths if He’s got nothing
better to do – “He will direct your paths.” How does God do that? I don’t have
the slightest idea, I just know He does.
Friends,
He spoke the universe into existence; I think He can direct our paths. You
don’t have to worry, “Oh, well if I choose this when I really should have
chosen this, everything’s just going to fall apart and unravel like a row of
dominoes.” Relax. Relax. He spoke the universe into existence; He can certainly
direct your paths.”