Oh, Decisions

The other night I had a moment. Like, one of those moments where you just freeze in fear of making a decision. Ever had a moment like that?

Mine was about what to eat for dinner.

No, really.

You see, I didn't know what I wanted. I was hungry, but just couldn't decide. I literally sat in my parked car for over 20 minutes trying to figure out where to go. I realized that I'm always so worried about making the wrong choice.

I thought about grabbing a burger at a fast food place. But I already had a soda that day, and obviously getting a burger leads to getting soda. And what if that burger caused me to start eating horribly and gain 15 pounds? And what if it didn't really fill me up or satisfy? Besides, I was totally going to judge myself for getting fast food.

Right now you're probably thinking that I have some issues. Which is fair, I totally do. But do you ever do the same thing? Maybe not about dinner, but about real life decisions? Do you ever play out the different situations that could come from your decision--both the good and the bad? Do you think about how your decision might affect other people around you? Does your obsessing about what's right and wrong make you terrified to make a decision?

And all for what? Talk about letting anxiety win.

So as I stood in my kitchen, making pizza, I thought about how God wants me to think when I have big decisions to make. Bigger than dinner.

I came to Jeremiah 29:11-12.

You see, indecisiveness is a refusal to trust in God's plan. We think that OUR decision will dictate what God does with a situation.

God intends good. He plans to prosper us and give us hope and a future. And He can and will do so regardless of the decisions we make. As long as we are calling upon Him and praying to Him, he will hear and take care of us. God wants the best for us; to bless us with amazing gifts because we are His creation. He delights in giving us good things. 

I don't want to miss God's best. I don't want to miss His blessings because I'm frozen in fear. Being frozen in indecision is a lack of trust in God's will to give us good things. There is nothing that He will not accomplish in us when we are looking towards him. He won't let us fail. And there is peace in believing that. 

Regardless of what decision you make, God will accomplish his plans.