Category Archives: Decisions

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Why You’re Never Too Old to Make Decisions of Quality

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Why You're Never Too Old to Make Decisions of Quality

I once heard an elderly minister who had served the Lord in His work for over 60 years make this statement. “It takes the same dedication at 70 years of age that it did when I was twenty.” There are decisions and there are DECISIONS. To differentiate them, the phrase ‘decisions of quality’ may help. What is a decision of quality? How are they different than the everyday snapshot variety? That’s what we are going to look at in today’s blog.

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Why Decisiveness Helps You to Live the Jesus Life

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The Jesus Life Is a Life of Decisiveness

A farmer hired a man to work for him. He told him his first task would be to paint the barn and said it should take him about three days to complete. But the hired man was finished in one day. The farmer set him to cutting wood, telling him it would require about 4 days. The hired man finished in a day and a half, to the farmer’s amazement. The next task was to sort out a large pile of potatoes. He was to arrange them into three piles: seed potatoes, food for the hogs, and potatoes that were good enough to sell. The farmer said it was a small job and shouldn’t take long at all. At the end of the day, the farmer came back and found the hired man had barely started. “What’s the matter here,” the farmer asked. “I can work hard, but I can’t make decisions!”1 In today’s blog post, we are going to look into the issue of decision making and how decisiveness can help us in our everyday lives.

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#032: How Quality Decisions Keep You from Drifting [Podcast]

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A silent rowboat drifting to no particular place. The other boats clustering at port look normal. Why is this one floating alone?  The motor is in place. The oars, you can see them. They are a little splintered but they are serviceable. How confusing. Why is this boat drifting? The absence of anchor and rope makes everything clear. Isn’t this like some churchgoers today? Sometimes you see them, they are full of God’s Words. Other times, if you didn’t know better, you might think, “I need to help them find Jesus.” It is an odd thought for a believer in Jesus to need help finding Him. Isn’t He with you everywhere you go? Quality decisions are like anchors for a rowboat. They steady you.  They help you stay in port. They keep you from making a living mess out of your life. Let’s look at how quality decisions keep you from drifting.

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Three Decisions of Quality that Will Set Your Life on Fire

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What is a quality decision? It is the act of making a determined choice from which there is no turning back. There is room for men and women who resolve to stay a fixed course no matter what others do. Hear the Apostle Paul, “I serve God with my spirit in the gospel of his Son” (Rom. 1:9). These are choices a Jesus child makes that rips the flesh off  compromise. There irrevocable. “I will serve God.” The period at the end of that sentence serves notice. Yes, you live and move in the age of Grace. But you refuse to let down  just because forgiveness is available. Praise Him for His mercy. Thank God for the Blood that washes me when I miss it. But do I dare say it? You have so set your heart toward the Father you don’t need the Blood. You are immovable like granite. No folding, no caving in. Your heart is perfect, Your heat extreme. All of this is possible, you know. Here are three decisions of quality that will set your life on fire.

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How Quality Decisions Keep You from Drifting

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A silent rowboat drifting to no particular place. The other boats clustering at port look normal. Why is this one floating alone?  The motor is in place. The oars, you can see them. They are a little splintered but they are serviceable. How confusing. Why is this boat drifting? The absence of anchor and rope makes everything clear. Isn’t this like some churchgoers today? Sometimes you see them, they are full of God’s Words. Other times, if you didn’t know better, you might think, “I need to help them find Jesus.” It is an odd thought for a believer in Jesus to need help finding Him. Isn’t He with you everywhere you go? Quality decisions are like anchors for a rowboat. They steady you.  They help you stay in port. They keep you from making a living mess out of your life. Let’s look at decisions in today’s post.

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Making a Quality Decision to Enjoy Life

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What kind of life did Jesus come to bring us? A sad life? A depressed life? A barely rake by, scrape by life? Is that what a Christian is supposed to be? No, God gave us things to enjoy (1Tim. 6:17). Mark, this down sanguine personalities are not the only ones that are supposed to be enjoying life! Certain personality types have a harder time chilling out than other personality types. The key to it is for all of us to learn to enjoy the normal everyday situations of life. Here are some further thoughts on making a quality decision to enjoy life.

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Resolving to be Decisive

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I am your constant companion. I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden. I will push you onward or drag you down to failure. I am completely at your command. Half of the things you do you might as well turn them over to me and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly. I am easily managed – you must merely be firm with me. Show me exactly how you want something done and after a few lessons I will do them automatically. I am a servant of all great men; and alas, of all failures as well. Those who are great, I have made great. Those who are failures, I have made failures. I am not a machine, though I work with the precision of a machine plus the intelligence of a man. You may run me for profit or run me for ruin – it makes no difference to me. Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your feet. Be easy with me and I will destroy you. Who am I? I am a habit! Today, we are going to talk about the habit of decisiveness.