Decisions, decisions, decisions

 This way. that way. did I choose the right way?

^"And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, 'This is the way, walk in it,' when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left."-Isaiah 30:21

Is it really that simple?

You might-like me-think you've gone deaf because you can't hear "this is the way". If we're not staying close enough to our Father's voice, we might not hear it.

Today, I turned to a sticky not I've had on my desk for over a year and there it is...

Jesus voice is in His word. And in His word it says to commit whatever I do to the Lord, and my plans will succeed.

Phew. ok. so, it's not about making a "right" or "wrong" decision.  The question is where is my heart? Am I committing my ways to the Lord? Am I relying on Him or turning to comfort?

In a season of some big decision making, Jesus met me through one of my favorite author's, Ann Voskamp's, blog, a Holy Experience (http://www.aholyexperience.com). Below is some of the text that really spoke to me quoted from her blog.


Am I making any of the right decisions?
I’ve never been here before — so how do I know the way?

You’ve only got one blink of a life to make count for eternity.

It’s only your own sacrifices that show up at your funeral.

Am I making any of the right ones?
When are your sacrifices really just about lining your own nest? What road, what career, what part of the world and is it okay to stay here or is it okay to go and is that even the right question?--
Will I someday be standing with scars to give account before Him that I wasn’t about my own comfort but Christ’s call, that I didn’t make my life about safe living but about dangerous dying, that I didn’t escape into a neat, saved American dream but into a messy, mission-driven God-sized demand.

"Your Dad will call you– and if you can’t hear him? You’re not where you are meant to be.“ Your Father calls you.
And if you can’t hear Him?
Am I making the right decisions?

We want clarity — and God gives a call. We want a road map — and God gives a relationship. We want answers — and God gives His hand.

The whole room, it’s still quiet and holy full and God singularly calls you and a call from God is about relationship and a call is something one keeps listening for — come this way, come to the land I will show you. God didn’t give Abraham a map — He gave Abraham a relationship. He doesn’t want you to lean on a guidebook. God wants you to lean on the Guide — who speaks to you through His Book. Why would God give a map — when He wants to give you Himself?

A career is about the guidebook and a calling is about leaning on the Guide who speaks to you through His Book. A career is about making a plan and a calling is about trusting a Person who changes the plan.  Grace, that careers can fall way to callings.

The call that thing one keeps listening for and the heart of faith is the ear.
This is the way for you — not her way, not their way — but My Way for You.  
I have to stay close enough to the Word to hear my Father’s voice.