Decision Making -God's Way

UV 3711/10000 Decision Making – God’s Way When He has brought all His own sheep outside, He walks on ahead of them, and the sheep follow Him because they know His voice and recognize His call. John 10 v 4 The perennial question before humanity on earth is how does one find or discern the will of God in heaven concerning our lives, our decisions, our choices. The uni-verse makes it very clear. We need to be silent and listen to His voice. Only if we are silent, can we listen and hear His voice. We need to listen only to His voice for all else is just noise that will distort our choice. We need to recognize the voice of the good Shepherd who laid down His life for the sheep. The evil shepherd or the shepherds of tbis world look for ways to take the lives of the sheep. Only Jesus alone in history laid down His life voluntarily for mankind. The goats will not listen to the voice of the Shepherd and will follow their own lights. The good Shepherd Jesus walks ahead of us in all our situations and He rushes to our help when we panic for He Himself has experienced that kind of situation often while living a human’s life on earth. He has complete empathy with each of His sheep. The thing about this figure of speech that Jesus used to explain how He guides and leads people who believe and follow Him is that the only thing that sheep recognize is the voice of the shepherd. They hear the call and rush to him wherever they are on the pasture. The goats keep wandering alone and led by their own hunger for food. They are always looking for greener pasture or greater security and prosperity but Jesus promises in Psalm 23 to lead us not only to green pastures but to still waters ( peace, rest, eternal life). He satisfies our hunger and thirst for eternal life, spiritual, physical, emotional, intellectual, social and familial. Jesus when He ascended to heaven told His disciples that He is leaving the Holy Spirit to speak to them, guide and lead them. Today, in all our choices, we need to first listen to the quiet whispers and promptings of the Holy Spirit. We can also get good and wise counsel from elders, experts and those experienced in the matter which we are confronting. We need to seek the Lord with all our heart and seek His wisdom and counsel and He will give it to us generously. We need to conform our choices or decisions to the principles embedded in the word of God. When we do all this, we have the peace of God which is the sign that we are on the right track, in alignment with God’s perfect and not just permissive will.