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Right Decision (Mar 13)
How do you personally make “right” decisions? What do you do?
How do you personally make “right” decisions? What do you do?
Devotional for Today
On the Road Again
Many who aren’t country music fans know Willie Nelson’s song “On the Road Again,” which he wrote for the 1980 motion picture Honeysuckle Rose. Traveling seems to get “in the blood” of some people. As the child of a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, I began feeling the wanderlust after we’d stayed at a place for three years.
It’s not always easy to know when it’s the right time to move—or to make any other kind of change.
When I attended Atlantic Union College, the pastor received a call to another conference but decided the call came from the devil. (If he’d thought the call had come from God, he would have had to accept it, and he didn’t want to move.) On one occasion my father-in-law, another Adventist pastor, accepted three calls to other conferences at the same time. He watched for indications of God’s will.
The Israelites spent 40 years trekking from Egypt to Canaan. Whether they should move on or remain at a site came at God’s bidding with a visible sign. A pillar of fire by night and cloud by day were visible signs of God’s leading. “Whenever the cloud lifted from over the [tabernacle], then the Israelites would set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the Israelites would camp” (Num. 9:17, NRSV).
If only we had such a concrete omen to help us decide what to do—move to another city, state, or country; change jobs, choose which house to purchase; decide on a course of treatment for disease . . . The list, I suppose, could go on ad infinitum.
Prayer, of course, is important when we’re faced with a decision. Even then, it’s not always clear which course God wants us to take. It seems that decision-making doesn’t come easily to many of us. Sometimes we even get torn up inside when confronted with decisions.
We don’t have a pillar of light by night and a cloud by day to direct our lives, so we’re left with Bible study, prayer, advice from others, and the exercise of our God-given free will. When we use these in unison, we can confidently step out in faith.
Richard W. Coffen focuses on details in Scripture that provide
important glimpses into who God is and what He is really like. By
examining these “snapshots” of God’s interaction with humanity, we
discover nuances of His character that help us form a true picture of
our Creator. Some details may be pleasant and familiar; others may be
surprising.
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Many who aren’t country music fans know Willie Nelson’s song “On the Road Again,” which he wrote for the 1980 motion picture Honeysuckle Rose. Traveling seems to get “in the blood” of some people. As the child of a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, I began feeling the wanderlust after we’d stayed at a place for three years.
It’s not always easy to know when it’s the right time to move—or to make any other kind of change.
When I attended Atlantic Union College, the pastor received a call to another conference but decided the call came from the devil. (If he’d thought the call had come from God, he would have had to accept it, and he didn’t want to move.) On one occasion my father-in-law, another Adventist pastor, accepted three calls to other conferences at the same time. He watched for indications of God’s will.
The Israelites spent 40 years trekking from Egypt to Canaan. Whether they should move on or remain at a site came at God’s bidding with a visible sign. A pillar of fire by night and cloud by day were visible signs of God’s leading. “Whenever the cloud lifted from over the [tabernacle], then the Israelites would set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the Israelites would camp” (Num. 9:17, NRSV).
If only we had such a concrete omen to help us decide what to do—move to another city, state, or country; change jobs, choose which house to purchase; decide on a course of treatment for disease . . . The list, I suppose, could go on ad infinitum.
Prayer, of course, is important when we’re faced with a decision. Even then, it’s not always clear which course God wants us to take. It seems that decision-making doesn’t come easily to many of us. Sometimes we even get torn up inside when confronted with decisions.
We don’t have a pillar of light by night and a cloud by day to direct our lives, so we’re left with Bible study, prayer, advice from others, and the exercise of our God-given free will. When we use these in unison, we can confidently step out in faith.
From the Devotional: Snapshots of God
Richard W. Coffen focuses on details in Scripture that provide
important glimpses into who God is and what He is really like. By
examining these “snapshots” of God’s interaction with humanity, we
discover nuances of His character that help us form a true picture of
our Creator. Some details may be pleasant and familiar; others may be
surprising.
More Information
