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While
typing this article I have a small river of indecision separating me from my computer
monitor. A never-ending flow of mail comes to me on a daily basis, often carrying
letters and ads asking me to make decisions. Sometimes don't even want to pick
up envelopes. I know they represent paperwork or bills. But, the envelope stops
here!
Some folks become sadly incapacitated by having to make decisions.
The follower of Christ can get hung up waiting for some extraordinary direction
from God. We want to do the Lord's work, but moving forward carries the fear of
"being out of God's will."
Even the Apostle Paul struggled with knowing where to go next in
his service for Jesus. Acts 16 tells about Paul bumping up against the Spirit's
leading and finally against the Aegean Sea. In this passage, God gives Paul the
"Macedonian Call", a vision that leads him to Europe.
You may be tempted to think of this kind of leading as the norm.
However, There are only a couple of visions recorded for Paul, the rest of the
time he is "walking by faith" and listening to the Spirit in his heart. He moves
and God directs him, sometimes even into jail (cp. Acts 16:16-40.
The mature Christian life is meant to be lived by faith, not constantly
seeking for the outwardly miraculous.
All Scripture references are from the New American Standard Version unless otherwise noted.
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~ Indecision
