Let’s Make A Deal?
It deeply saddens me how so many believers today are wasting the life that God has given to them, simply because they continue to believe that God is a God of options, rather than a God of decisions. As it relates to areas of relationships, employment, or even areas of ministry, there are so many of us who now would rather be satisfied with maintaining options, than actually making a decision as to which option to take.
We do this for a wide variety of reasons.
Either we fear that the option we decide to take and pursue will not yield the kind of results we desire to see, or it may be that many of us have bought into the lie that having and maintaining options provides us with a better opportunity to briefly sample and experience the kind of life we desire to live, without having to make a commitment necessary to keep it.
Although many would not like to admit it, but we have become a nation on window shoppers.
Instead of making the decision to finally pay for what God desires for us to have, we would much rather walk through life aimlessly trying on every option that fits us, not realizing that at the end of the day, we have nothing at all to show for it.
Does God allow for us to choose the paths we take? Absolutely.
However, does God find joy in us switching from path to path? Absolutely not.
God is a God who delights in those who make decisions. In fact, (hold on to your seats here) I honestly believe that God finds more delight in sinners who make decisions, than He does in believers who just maintain options. (See Revelations 3:15-16)
Before you complain today about your job (or lack of one), your spouse (or lack of one), or even your church (or lack of one), what options are you maintaining that are causing you to not see the decisions God has (already) told you to make? Why are you still trying to make a deal?
The time has come for us all to stop making a game show out of our lives. The time has come for you to decide which door you are going to open, and which door you are going to close. If we know that our God is a God who sees the end from the beginning, then why would we not seek His heart regarding the paths we desire to take? I’m sorry to have to be the one to tell you this…
…but a decision must be made.
