Choosing God before we have to Choose

Making decisions is just a part of life.  What you're going to wear or to eat are among a hundred other much more important choices face us daily.  Some decisions, like checking your Facebook page, are more superficial and relatively unimportant.  While other decisions, like who to marry or what your career will be, are more significant and life-determining decisions.

Because making decisions is just a part of life, it is no wonder that the Bible speaks quite directly to how we are to decide and choose.  What is interesting is that Scripture speaks of decision making in both a macro and a micro level, indicating that God is concerned with the minutiae of our lives as much as He is with the "bigger" things.

Most importantly, God wants us to seek Him and His guidance when facing decisions in our lives (Psa. 37:5; Jer. 6:16; 33:3).  In this way, godly decision making begins before decisions are made.  While this may seem obvious, consider the effect: if we pre-decide to commit ourselves to God's will before we have to make decisions, when the time comes for us to make the decision we will be more likely to make the right decisions.

Conversely, if we waver before we actually face the various available choices, then when the time comes for us to make decisions, we will likely be distracted from God's purposes by our own passions and desires.  Remember, the enemy lurks in waiting to devour (1 Pet. 5:8).  He, Satan, knows exactly how to tempt us away from God, so that when we stand at the crossroads of decision making we will not choose God's will but we will follow our fleshly desires that lead down the wide road of destruction.

Instead, we must determine which road we will choose to take long before we come to the fork of deciding.  In this way, we will be on-guard against being led astray.  Pre-deciding to follow Christ also helps to keep us focused on God and His will for our lives well before we are forced to make decisions.  Again, God is as concerned with being the guider of small decisions as He is with big ones.  Because of this, we should never grow weary of seeking His counsel, whether regarding what to eat for breakfast or when to make a career change.  Let us then seek after God first in all things so as to live in the center of His will!