God must be trying to tell me something. Three time this week so far the message “Your decisions determine your life story” has occurred.
What life story do you want to leave behind? Andy Stanley explored that in this week’s Your Move message. What do you want people to say about you years from now?
Every day you make decisions, large and small–mostly small, that determine your story. Did you decide to help or hinder? Did you decide to stir up trouble or to be a peacemaker?
Aristotle said that we are what we repeatedly do. He went on to say “Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”
Did you know that the word “decision” seldom occurs in the Bible? I just looked it up. In the NIV, there were 27 instances of the word, and all but 4 were in the notes. Proverbs only uses the word once. But the entire book is about the effects of our decisions.
I’ve made perhaps four major decisions in the past year. One was on the whole not good–a business decision that caused me some amount of grief. But most of them have turned out well. They have determined the direction of my life for the next few years. And I’m happy with that. And I think God is.
But I wonder–what other decisions am I facing big or small that God is warning me about by putting that message in front of me this week? Or, maybe I’m just supposed to pass along the wisdom.
Tags: decisions, Discipline, Ethics, growth, living
August 21, 2014 at 9:55 am |
With respect to your last point perhaps it’s both Gary. I appreciate the word it fits nicely about now.
August 21, 2014 at 9:57 am |
Thanks. I like thinking “both…and” rather than “either…or” at times.