How do you make decisions. What is the logic you run through before you make a choice? Is there logic you use to make a choice? Are your choices made by emotional reactions or personal desires? Have you experienced negative consequences for your choices?
Choices. Decisions. They can be challenging. They can be joyous. They can be disastrous. But we all have to make choices and decisions. We have all likely heard that when one door closes another door opens. Unfortunately, the door that opens may not turn out well for us.
Taking time to think through the pros and cons of our choices before we decide can help us avoid pitfalls. Listening to advice from people we know and trust can also help. Taking all our choices, especially significant ones, to God is a key to making better choices. But our choices are often made based on the way we have trained ourselves to think.
The Apostle Paul is telling the church in Rome, and us, to train ourselves to turn away from sin. It is not a one-time decision. It must become a disciplined way of living our lives. We must train ourselves to turn away. And, yes, we must continually ask God to guide us and we must follow his guidance. We cannot do it alone. We need God in the midst of our decisions. It is by changing our mindset to include God in our decision-making process that we make the best decisions for our lives.
I pray we all follow a thorough process for making decisions. I pray we discipline ourselves to make wise choices. I pray each one of us asks God to guide us in our decision-making. Follow a logical decision-making process. Discipline yourself. Ask God for guidance. Make the best decisions.
Romans 6:12-13 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies, so that you obey their desires. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
Marty Pressey 