106 DECISIONS, DECISIONS
106 DECISIONS, DECISIONS
Decisions are an every day, every hour and every second part of our life. Some we have made for so long that they have become a habit that we don’t even think about, when we make them. Our arm itches and we scratch it, without a second thought but, at the first itch, we had to think about what was irritating us and find out what the best way was to stop the itch.
Thought, trial and error and discovery were our teachers at the first; then we learned from those around us. [Our biggest teachers being our parents and, mainly, our fathers.] We would watch them and see how they handled a situation and then, do the same thing.
Action and reaction became a normal part of our lives and we began to make decisions at blinding speeds without putting any real thought into it. This has become the habit of most people in the world today to the point where psychologists can predict what a person is like and what they will do with a great degree of accuracy.
They have even created a difference between Christian’s and non-Christian’s way of thinking because of their faith; it has become a pattern of thought.
All the information coming into your brain from the seven senses creates an awareness of what is around us and what we can do about and in it. [Yes; I’ve added a sense. They say that there are six senses but, of that sixth one, I have divided it into two parts; the feelings made from the unknown and the feelings made from the known. God, to me, is a known and familiar sense that I experience all the time but some things and persons are unknown experiences to me. God I know and trust; the others I explore carefully.]
We, as created souls, are just habituating in this body. The body comes equipped with all or most of the tools we need to experience the spirit world, the physical world and the thought world around us. We hear something in our ears, [and, sometimes, sound comes through as vibrations in our body] and then we process it, discover what it is, what made it and how it is going to affect us. Then we have to decide what we are going to do about it, if anything. [Doing nothing is still a decision to be made by you and me.]
There is such a huge amount of information in every look, touch, smell, taste and feeling that we cannot absorb and think about it all so we have learned to focus on certain points of information and make our decisions on a relatively small amount of information.
The sight function has become our number one sense for information. Most everything has geared itself to our eyes; how pretty they are, how appealing it is or how badly we think we need what we see, is taking most of our time.
Millions of dollars is spent every day to get something [or someone] in front of your eyes in an appealing way and to make you decide to spend your money [that you spent your time earning] to buy what you see.
Yet, God’s word says that what is not seen is far more valuable than what is seen; making our decisions to be honest or dishonest, moral or immoral, kind or cruel or trustworthy or untrustworthy so important in our decision-making that our life depends on us making the right ones.
Jesus had finished buying our salvation and had inherited the kingdom of God when he opened his shirt to show Tomas the gaping wound in His side. Tomas saw the gross open flesh wound but, instead of turning sick and backing away, he acknowledged that Jesus was his Lord and master and loved Him the more.
Let us make the decision to walk by faith and not by sight. It will please our God.
