“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve…” (Joshua 24:15a King James Version)
No! This is not a pre-election meditation that I forget to publish. It is not that kind of “Decision Time” to which I am referring in the title above. In general, my intention is not to cause you to live cautiously, but rather consciously; cognizant of the fact that you will be confronted with countless decisions to make every single day.
es, “Decision Time” occurs more than we tend to think. Dr. Eva M. Krockow stated in Psychology Today, “In fact, some sources suggest that the average person makes an eye-popping 35,000 choices per day. Assuming that most people spend around seven hours per day sleeping and thus blissfully choice-free, that makes roughly 2,000 decisions per hour or one decision every two seconds.” I would probably add to the speculations of the sources to say that even when we sleep, in our unconscious state, we make decisions, and sometimes, let me get psychology focused; sometimes our id overtakes our super-ego and our spiritual foundation. Made you think, didn’t I?
Let’s move from the social science realm to reality realm; the realm that acknowledges that we are saved by grace. Saved folks should make good decision during “Decision Time.” Still, with that being said, I have a question for you and me to consider: How will we, believers, choose among our numerous options in our “Decision Time” situations? Yes, what will we decide to do, for instance, in respect to the way we think, talk, interact, or conduct ourselves in the multiplicity of situations where we are faced with “Decision Time?”
I went to another source for advice, the Word of God, and I found that whenever faced with “Decision Time,” we really have only two choices. Will we decide to conduct ourselves in what I personally call “The Believers Code of Conduct,” found in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, or will we choose to base our decisions on things we have heard and seen and are wrongly deemed appropriate and acceptable by Satan, the secular world, or our seducing flesh? If you read the verses below, I think two things will happen: (1) You will agree that Jesus’ teachings should be what we should base our decisions on, and (2) You will revisit what Jesus has to say in Matthew 5-7. Make sure to at least read the closing verses this morning! You can do your revisiting of the whole Sermon on the Mount at lunch or after work. Give up some of your social media time or fill the so-called vacancy during that, “I ain;t got nothing to do time. “My friend, stay God-conscious and Christ-centered today. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you too during “Decision Time,” again, and again, and again! Have a wonderful Wednesday! Be blessed!
“Anyone who hears and obeys these teachings of mine is like a wise person who built a house on solid rock. Rain poured down, rivers flooded, and winds beat against that house. But it was built on solid rock, and so it did not fall. Anyone who hears my teachings and doesn’t obey them is like a foolish person who built a house on sand. Rain poured down, rivers flooded, and the winds blew and beat against that house. Finally, it fell with a crash.” (Matthew 7:24-27 Contemporary English Version)
Committed to the climb,
Mark L. King