Are you a decisive person? Do you know what you want? Do you waffle back and forth trying to decide? Are there areas in your life where you just cannot decide? Do you like being around people who just cannot make up their minds? Are you hopeful when you make a decision? Let me tell you what God taught me about how Decisiveness brings hope.
It is clear to me that when I am decisive I have hope because I know where I am headed. I know what the outcome is going to be or at least I think I know. James 1 describes a man who just cannot make up his mind, “But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.” James 1:6-8 (ESV) I find that I need to approach God forthright and with a clear believe that God will provide. Because as James says if I do not I will not receive anything from Him.
One of the things I have learned about being decisive is that I must trust God to provide for me. So when I ask God for something I can always depend upon the fact that God is on my side. He wants to give me what is good for me. One of my favorite verses in the Bible Proverbs 3:4-8 says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment[c] to your bones. (ESV) As I strive to be decisive, I find this passage to be a great guide for me. When I trust in the Lord and let Him guide and direct me, I can be decisive because I know what He wants from me and what He wants to give to me.
I have also stived to be decisive because Jesus taught me to be decisive. “Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.” Matthew 5:37 (ESV) It is a simple teaching but one that I have found is not as easy as it seems, and the world certainly does not like it. They do not like black and white. They like grey. The problem is Yes and No are black and white. There is no maybe nor is there the changing of the mind. Yes and no are very decisive terms, there is nothing grey about it.
I pray that you will join me in being decisive and let your yes be yes and your no be no. In doing so you will find hope as I do. Hope that a good God is always there to provide my every need. We need to be decisive in the fact that God loves us so much He sent His Son Jesus that we might have eternal life. In doing so you will find the only true source of hope. Remember though that all sin is forgivable except the sin of unbelieve in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ on the cross satisfied the penalty for my sins and yours as well. It satisfied all my sins from the past, in the present, and in the future. My penalty and yours were satisfied on the cross by the death of Jesus, God’s greatest act of love and wrath, who became sin for me and you. It was also God’s greatest act of faithfulness because “God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8 (ESV) Because wisdom shows us, we need to believe in Jesus. I hope that you join me in helping others to choose Jesus.
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