The average person makes around 35,000 decisions per day, according to Psychology Today. That is an estimated 2,000 decisions per hour. Let’s pause for a moment and think. Even now you’ve had to make decisions. The amount of time we have in a day is spent thinking, choosing, and deciding. When we add in the thoughts we have while sleeping, every moment of our day becomes about some significant choice, whether big or small.
I bring this to your attention because, for any person, this can be a heavy weight to carry. Having to think about yourself, your kids, your career, your life, where to live, what to eat, what to do, can all be exhausting. Yet, even more time is spent actually thinking rather than just doing or being.
I propose these questions: How would our lives look if we depended on God more than we depend on ourselves to make decisions? What would it look like to rely solely on God in every season, for every question, and never have to second-guess if He knows what is best for us?
While God offers us the opportunity and access to come to Him for daily decision-making, it is often our automatic response to make decisions ourselves before consulting with God. In our process of finding the answer, we come to God last. Too many times, we put the weight and burden on ourselves to carry when it is God who is asking us to let Him guide us.
God says in His Word, in Isaiah 55:8-9, that His thoughts are not our thoughts, neither are His ways our ways. He declares that His ways are higher than ours, and His thoughts are the same.
If God knows all the decisions we will face and His thoughts and ways are higher than ours, then there must be a different place of thinking we need to reach. Once we begin to understand that God thinks differently, better, and more strategic than any decision we can ever make, then we can begin to ask Him to renew our minds to think what He thinks and turn our ways toward His. This is not a place of losing control, but one where our confidence is fully entrusted to Him.
We no longer place our trust in ourselves, who at times are uncertain, indecisive, depleted mentally, and simply prone to poor judgment. Instead, we choose to trust what God thinks and decides, which is always pure, holy, and good.
The choice is yours today. You can spend much of your life deciding and making thousands of decisions each hour, or you can choose one decision each day that has the power to change the trajectory of your entire life: to trust God at His Word and believe that He knows how to make decisions for us.
Prayer:
I pray today for your renewed strength in the Lord. I ask for His guidance as you decide to lean not on your own understanding. May God show you grace and mercy when hard decisions arise, granting you the courage to bring them to Him first. I pray that He will make it known to you that you have nothing to fear or be moved by. Allow Him to renew you and transform your thoughts and ways to align with His. In Jesus’ Name, I pray, Amen.
