Your Decisions

God gave us the freedom to make choices. He gave us

 decision making skills. How we use these skills and what

 choices we make affect our lives now and for eternity.

Everyday the Christian must choose to be obedient to

God. Everyday we as believers must submit our wills-"our

decision makers"- to the Lord. We must yield to His perfect

will for our lives.

Many Christians are making hasty and error filled

decisions throughout their lives which are bringing

disastrous results to their own lives and the lives of their

families.

Simply stated, "Wrong decisions bring wrong results".

We reap the results of what we sow. The Bible states that

"...Whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap."

We need to realize that our decisions cause us to sow

certain things into our lives. Then we and our families reap

the results of this harvest multiplied back to us.

For example, if I sow a watermelon seed I need not

expect to get cantaloupes at harvest time. I will get

watermelons, because I sowed a watermelon seed. Notice

also, that the harvest brings watermelons, plural. I may

have only sowed one seed, but that seed produced a plant

that bore many watermelons in the time of harvest.

In addition, notice that I said "harvest time". When we

as Christians sow a seed (make a decision) we won't

necessarily see any or all of the results from that decision

until some time has passed. In other words, we won't see the

results until the seed that was sown has grown and brought

forth its fruit in its season.

Every seed (decision) will take a certain amount of

time to produce its fruit (results). For example, a tomato

seed will take a longer time to produce a crop of tomatoes

than a radish seed will take to produce a crop of radishes.

Nevertheless, a crop is certain. The tomato seed will

produce tomatoes and the radish seed will produce radishes.

We as Christians need to realize that many of the

problems that we have in our lives are not just "chance or

circumstance". Many of our problems may be "fruit" (results)

produced from wrong decisions that we have made at earlier

periods of time in our lives.

Remember that no one  ever "gets away with"

 making a wrong decision and then gets to "skip" the

payday of reaping the results of the seed sown.

God states that every "idle" word that men speak

they will have to give an account for.

For example, in the Bible it says that Jacob lied to

his own father in order to obtain the blessing. Then for 14

years Jacob had to work for Laban, his father-in-law, who

lied and deceived him, in order for Jacob to receive the

blessing of a wife.

Galatians 6.7-9 says, "Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for

whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to

his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the

Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be

weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap, (if we

faint not.)"

As long as the earth exists there will be seed time and

harvest time.

We as Christians need to realize that one "little" seed

(decision) can have the potential of a "huge" harvest.

A Christian should never say, "Well, this is just a

small decision. I can handle it. It's just too little to

bother the Lord about.

There is no "small" seed (decision) in the Kingdom of

God. Even small seeds can produce great big harvests. Furthermore,

the Body of Christ does not need any "great big" harvests from

"wrong little" seeds that careless Christians have sown.

Therefore, a believer cannot afford to be a "lukewarm,

sloppy, or fleshly" Christian with a packet of "little"

lukewarm seed. The results are a tragically big harvest of

destruction and devastation.

Jesus said that the person who does not sow with the

Lord scattereth. We as Christians must sow what is right and

just in the eyes of the Lord. We have to make God based

decisions about everything in our lives.

We cannot afford to base our decisions on anything

other than the Word of God--the Bible.

We need to confess our sin of poor decision making to

the Lord and let Him cleanse us and forgive us. God can

restore the years that the locust have eaten, and He can

make all things new. When we sin we do have an advocate with

the Father--the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is the only One who

can bring us through the storms caused by our bad decisions.

He is the only One who can turn the guilt into victory.

Jesus is the only One who can give us peace and hope.

Let us choose to walk worthy of the Lord all our days.

Let us be careful to allow Jesus to be the Lord of our

lives.

Let us not be "sloppy" in our Christian lives. Let us

make the right decisions and sow that which is pleasing to

God into our lives. Then the fruit will edify others and

glorify God.

May all our decisions be based on the Word of God and

may nothing be done through vain glory or strife, that we

may be spared the grief of a harvest of bad results caused

by making the wrong decisions.