something called Wisdom

I made a comment to one of my closest friends last night that revealed something in my heart that kind of made me inventory my "life strategy" this morning. I muttered underneath my breath that, "I'm not good at making decisions."

The decisions we make are the wheel at the helm of our life. They steer us through deep waters and down stream or against the flow. We have only two options in this moment, we can make good decisions and/or bad ones. There is some crossroad in our lives where we each must take responsibility for our actions and this morning through prayer and reading, the Lord has really arrested my intentions, cuffed me to Wisdom and downloaded some new life strategy into my heart that I'd be a fool to despise.

Truth # 1: Bad decisions will enslave you.

What's the difference between a successful business man and a convict? The successful business man made better decisions with his life. We are all in danger of being locked behind bars of financial miscalculation, sexually immoral actions or emotionally driven choices that only satisfy temporary desires.

Truth # 2: Making good decisions is like learning a new language.

If I decide this morning to be driven by truth rather than emotion, I will be forced to learn and unlearn the factors that instigate my indecisiveness. I am desiring to make good decisions. I believe that the more good decisions you make, the better your life will be.

My new Strategy for Wise Decisions

1. Pray (Start the decision process through prayer and allowing your will to abide in Jesus.)

2. Make Good Decisions that will glorify Christ(This is the main idea behind this entire blog post, but here's a new twist; decide that your actions will bring glory to God.)

3. Set Goals (The only way to accomplish something great, is one step at a time.)

4. Don't rush into anything (maybe the hardest nugget to swallow in this blog, but i think that if we are led by truth as opposed to emotion we can live life and decide to trust Jesus without being rushed into a pit of bad decisions.)


-most of the ideas behind this blog have been inspired by Donald Miller's writings in Chapter 8 of "to own a dragon". I would thank him if I could for writing such a wise perspective on the process of decision making.