A Prayer for Discernment in Making Essential Choices
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 marvel 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 appeared 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 instances in life I’ve stood paralyzed with an necessary resolution, stretching as tall as I can to get a view of every path, hoping to see how issues will end up. I get caught within the decision-making course of, as a result of I don’t have any thought what the result shall be. I stare on the two roads earlier than me, however I let concern maintain me again from selecting one over the opposite.
Making choices is a problem for many people. When it comes time to make an necessary resolution, we expertise issues like resolution fatigue or evaluation paralysis. We need to be assured within the choices we make, however we wrestle to know what to do. We don’t need to make a mistake that would have an effect on our life or another person’s, so we keep caught.
Choice-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 end up. I might suppose by means of each potential consequence, which solely resulted in stress, fear, and sleepless nights. In fact, I knew that God was in charge of the result, however I didn’t concentrate on that fact. I needed to be taught to reframe my ideas about choices— from on a regular basis selections to the massive, necessary ones. I discovered that as an alternative of making an attempt to make higher choices, I wanted to concentrate on changing into a greater resolution maker with God’s path.
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 considerations. He cried out to God in his frustration. However then, he sought discernment in order that he might achieve understanding.
“However once I thought how one can perceive this, it appeared to me a wearisome job, 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 means of the choices of this life. He shall be with us after we stand on the place the place two roads diverge. He’ll give us discernment to make the choice, irrespective of how troublesome. And ultimately, we will have peace in realizing we trusted God with the method and the result.
Let’s Pray:
Pricey God,
I’ve an necessary resolution 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 recent discernment as I make this troublesome resolution. 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’re proper beside me proper now, able to information me by means of this resolution. I do know you need what’s finest for me, and you’ll assist me achieve understanding of my scenario. Give me readability, path, and confidence by means of your Holy Spirit. I need to honor you with no matter I resolve. Thanks, God, for serving to me change into a greater resolution maker as I search you for discernment. Thanks for strolling this street alongside me and giving me peace.
In Jesus’ title, Amen.
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