A Prayer for Discernment in Making Vital Selections
By Kristine Brown
Bible Studying
“You information me along with your counsel, and afterward you’ll obtain me to glory.” – Psalm 73:24, ESV
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I’ve at all times cherished the poem, “The Street Not Taken,” by Robert Frost. The poet paints such a transparent image of what it’s like to face on the divergence of two roads and surprise which one he ought to select. I really feel a deep reference to that place he describes every time I learn it. Particularly the road that claims, “And be one traveler, lengthy I stood; And seemed down one so far as I might…”
I can relate to the person’s have to look so far as potential down one path and see what awaits him there. Many occasions in life I’ve stood paralyzed with an essential determination, stretching as tall as I can to get a view of every path, hoping to see how issues will prove. I get caught within the decision-making course of, as a result of I don’t have any thought what the result can be. I stare on the two roads earlier than me, however I let concern maintain me again from selecting one over the opposite.
Making selections is a problem for many people. When it comes time to make an essential determination, we expertise issues like determination fatigue or evaluation paralysis. We wish to be assured within the selections we make, however we wrestle to know what to do. We don’t wish to make a mistake that would have an effect on our life or another person’s, so we keep caught.
Determination-making has lengthy been a problem for me, too. I’ve felt like I couldn’t decide till I had some thought how issues would prove. I might suppose by each potential final result, which solely resulted in stress, fear, and sleepless nights. In fact, I knew that God was answerable for the result, however I didn’t give attention to that fact. I needed to study to reframe my ideas about selections— from on a regular basis selections to the massive, essential ones. I realized that as an alternative of attempting to make higher selections, I wanted to give attention to turning into a greater determination maker with God’s course.
Psalm 73:24 says, “You information me along with your counsel, and afterward you’ll obtain me to glory.” On this psalm of Asaph, the psalmist wrestled with why the depraved prosper whereas the righteous undergo. Despite the fact that he struggled with understanding, he didn’t maintain again his issues. He cried out to God in his frustration. However then, he sought discernment in order that he might achieve understanding.
“However once I thought the right way to perceive this, it appeared to me a wearisome process, till I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their finish.” (Psalm 73:16-17)
The psalmist knew precisely the place to go together with his downside. When he didn’t have the reply, he knew God would give him steerage. In the identical approach, we will know God will information us by the choices of this life. He can be with us once we stand on the place the place two roads diverge. He’ll give us discernment to make the choice, irrespective of how tough. And in the long run, we will have peace in realizing we trusted God with the method and the result.
Let’s Pray:
Pricey God,
I’ve an essential determination to make, and I don’t know which path to decide on. The extra I take into consideration the alternatives in entrance of me, the extra pissed off I change into. I really feel caught. Give me contemporary discernment as I make this tough determination. Lord, my wrestle with decision-making has change into a sample in my life. I concern making a mistake, so I agonize over what to do. However I do know you might be proper beside me proper now, able to information me by this determination. I do know you need what’s finest for me, and you’ll assist me achieve understanding of my scenario. Give me readability, course, and confidence by your Holy Spirit. I wish to honor you with no matter I resolve. Thanks, God, for serving to me change into a greater determination maker as I search you for discernment. Thanks for strolling this highway alongside me and giving me peace.
In Jesus’ identify, Amen.
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