Our lives are built on the blocks
of decisions we make. If for example, one sincerely desires to go west
yet their everyday decisions point East, they will end up in the East and until
their decision making parameters are altered to re-route them west, they will remain
on the same route going further on it despite their desire. We must therefore,
pause from time to time to evaluate our decision making parameters. This is
even more compelling with every new level of success. When God takes us higher,
the new position may demand an adjustment to our parameters for making decisions.
If also, one desires to change their person, they must alter their parameters
otherwise any change experienced will not be sustainable; they will only go so
far before they fall back to their old ways.
Romans 12: 2 “Don’t
copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a
new person by changing the way you think.”
As believers, we would only make
ungodly decisions if our decisions are not rooted on the thoughts or mind of
God which is revealed in His word; we will not even have good success in life. Unfortunately,
our decisions cannot be rooted in both God’s word and the world because they never
agree. One of the challenges of having one’s parameters based on God’s word is
that one may seem complicated. The bible likens such people to the wind; you
neither know where it is blowing from or to so it gets tough for people to put
you in a box which they want so badly to do so they can says they know you.
Even your friends sometimes get dizzy trying to understand you so that unwittingly,
they fight to put you in “a box” and are desperate for you to remain in it just
to make it easier for them. Though they act in love, they are dangerous because
they are best placed to bring you down despite that they did not intend to. You
must fight to be who God made you to be.
Mathew 16: 23
“Jesus turned to Peter and said, get away from me, satan! You are a dangerous
trap to me. You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from
God’s.”
One of the challenges of ministers
in today’s word is that though believers choose genuinely to follow them,
sometimes even to the extent of excluding The God of the minister, as the
minister begins to be transformed to be more like Christ, he is changing and the
followers get confused. They know what they want the minister to be which is
what he was when they chose him so they struggle to ensure he/she remains the
same but only for their immediate benefit. Not intending to, they manipulate
the minister until he dies spiritually from submitting to man instead of God.
They then start criticizing him, unaware that his death is a result of their
actions. Unfortunately, ministers are totally lost today because they gave in to
his kind of pressure and yes! it is your responsibility to ensure that you
remain yielded to God.
Acts 21: 13 – 14
“But he said, why all this weeping? You are breaking my heart! I am ready not
only to be jailed at Jerusalem but even to die for the sake of the Lord Jesus.
When it was clear that we couldn’t persuade him, we gave up and said The Lord’s
will be done.”
God uses people differently and we
are made to fit our purpose. Some believers would sometimes make decisions that
would make some other believers gasp. We must respect our differences. Bishop
Jakes once spoke about giraffes and turtles having different perspectives of
life because they have divergent views. The turtle feeds on the ground whilst
the giraffe feeds from a much higher place so that if they are ever friends, each
animal must respect the fact that their views are different as most of their
decisions will be. I daresay say that though the toe is just as important as
the eye in the body, for their relationship to work, they must both respect the
fact that their functions are different and as such would make different
decisions.
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