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How do you deal with deciding?
It could be something big, a breaker, a wave that has its way with you as you wrestle with it. Or it could be a walk in the park. Do you ever do that second thing with decision making, that walk in the park? I don’t; at least not nearly enough anyway.
Some decisions we can defer to professionals. From life coaches to our lawyers, to our doctors, or perhaps our auto mechanic (thanks, Craig!), we can rely on the expertise of these people to help us make decisions because they have given their lives to their craft. Thank God for that!
The decision making process sometimes (usually) begins later instead of sooner in most of our lives because we put off deciding until we run out of time or it becomes critical. Stuff happens, and while we meant to deal with that stuff last month, we avoid it and put it off.
Well, today is here. We have a new 24 hours to negotiate that decision, and guess what? Many won’t. And I can be one of them; how about you?
The primary problem may be that the decision that awaits requires tapping into specific dimensions from which we may not even think or pull. Here are two: Relationships and Spirituality – two outliers that can make a huge difference.
We haven’t the time in this post alone to fully unpack these two outliers. But we have the time to consider why relationships and Spirituality can make a massive difference in primary decision making.
First, let’s look at relationships, especially those relationships with people whose opinions you highly value. If the decision that lays before you carries some weight, worry, and risk, then call the friend(s) with some life experience and ask them to join you for dinner. Jesus did!
“I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into them and eat with them and they with me.” (Revelation 3:20)
If you and your friend are simpatico, there’s little to lose and a lot to gain. And that gain can help you in your decision and enhance the relationship in ways we may never imagine, and we also get dinner and drinks thrown in!
This second dimension, Spirituality, is best understood in the New Testament by John and Paul.
“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.” (Ephesians 3:16-17)
Inside these two verses, we can act upon who we profess to be as we follow Jesus. Spirituality is the outcome of Being who Doing. Being is simply about who we are while Doing is how we act to show who we are.
Inside each new day, you and I must follow Jesus and be more like Jesus. Being and doing more and more like Him. I’m sometimes confused by Christianity but never by who Jesus was and is the author and finisher of my faith.
MC
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