Today, we're talking about how to make God honoring decisions in life. Within the faith,

I would say this is probably one of the most common questions that leaders and pastors get.

How do I make good decisions? When we think about it, life is full of making decisions. I mean, everything you do ultimately traces

back to you having to exercise your discernment skills and then finally decide whether to do

something or not do something, or if you're going to do something or not do something,

what specific things you do related to it. And so this is an important issue to discuss because I think there's a lot

of misunderstanding. And I would dare say a lot of mysticism infused into decision making,

waiting for a feeling, waiting for a sign, and things like that, rather than being a people

who understand how God has designed us and that

there is a way, biblically speaking, to make good decisions.

Yeah, I remember Van Zavner once saying that every decision we make, it balances on a razor's

edge. Not that you're going to fall off the cliff, but it heads you in the trajectory of maybe

a direction where you should not take.

And this kind of goes hand in hand with our last podcast that we talked about with discipleship and accountability and just being there for each other.

Because friends can look into your life and just say, hey, man, your trajectory is a little off.

Yeah.

You know, remember when we had breakfast with Arkent Hughes?

Yeah. And he was asked the question, you know, you've written 22 commentaries. What has motivated you to do such a thing? And he said, well, I knew that with God. I can open up God's word. I can sit on my hands, I could put my guard down, because I knew God was not going to lie to me. lie to me. And I open up God's word because, and I start early in the morning, because I know the rest of the day I'm going to be lied to. Yeah. Right. And for me, the word of God became my ultimate sanity in a very confused, photoshopped world. The key is a surrendered will. Total surrender to God. You're no longer on.

You're brought with a price. We can come to God and say, not your will but mine be done. I've got my mind made up. I'm going to pray about this, so he's my conscience. I'm going to come to my father and get his opinion, but I'm going to do my own thing. So it really comes back to what Mark was saying, walking in the fear of the Lord.

Again, we're looking as these finite, fallen, broken people who are seeking to do the right thing. We're seeking to have something that's going to help us maximize decision making in such a way

that it comports with what's honoring to the Lord. And that's why

having a vision in life, I've shared years ago, I gathered my family in our living room,

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