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Decisions, Decisions

Decisions, Decisions. How many hundreds of decisions do you make each day?. Not everything is done by decision:. There are: involuntary systems of nerves and muscles "knee jerk reactions" survival mechanisms habits. Some choices are not ours to make.

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Decisions, Decisions

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  1. Decisions, Decisions

  2. How many hundreds of decisions do you make each day?

  3. Not everything is done by decision: There are: involuntary systems of nerves and muscles "knee jerk reactions" survival mechanisms habits

  4. Some choices are not ours to make. Decisions we make today have been conditioned or limited by decisions we've made in the past. Even procrastinators make decisions.

  5. The ability, and the necessity of decision-making is one of the most wonderful, awesome, and frightening aspects of our humanity.

  6. Bible Decisions Adam and Eve (Genesis 2:16,17) Moses (Hebrews 11:25) What Moses told the people of Israel (Deuteronomy 30:19) Joshua (Joshua 24:15) King David (I Chronicles 21:10)

  7. We need to take responsibility. stop waiting for someone else to make our decisions for us stop complaining about other people's decisions and how they have hindered and limited our own stop thinking that everything is already decided

  8. Decision Maker's Serenity Prayer Lord, help me to make the decisions I can, accept the consequences of decisions outside my control, and give me the wisdom to know the difference.

  9. We can decide how to respond "Love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked." (Luke 6:35) "Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." (Romans 12:17, 21) "Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else." (I Thessalonians 5:15)

  10. Three main factors - past, present, and future - enter into our decision-making.

  11. One decision no one can avoid. "But they [the Pharisees] were furious and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus." (Luke 7:11) "'What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?' They all say unto him, 'Let him be crucified.'" (Matthew 27:22) We are being asked the same type of question, "What will you do with Jesus?"

  12. Jesus said there are two roads, one narrow and the other wide "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." (Matthew 7:13, 14)

  13. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost - "The Road Not Taken"

  14. Joel 3:14 "Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision."

  15. All decisions are not created equal - some will carry little clout, while others will determine whether we live or die, are saved or lost.

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