Friday, November 6, 2015

What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

There’s nothing worse than a Catch-22.  If you’ve read the American novel by the same title authored by Joseph Heller, you understand what I mean.



 The phrase “Catch-22” refers to a situation from which you cannot seemingly escape because you have two conflicting conditions that contradict each other.  For example, you’ve locked yourself out of your house and need a key to get in, but you left the key inside the house. 

Another way of describing a Catch-22 is to say that you are going around in circles. 

 Sometimes we face decisions in life where we keep going around in circles. We don’t know what to do about a situation, but we know we must do something.  

 So, what do you do when you don’t know what to do?

 Here are some tips that will help you:

 1) When in doubt, don’t.  In other words, do not make a decision until you have peace about it. Satan would like nothing more than to push you into a decision that you are not ready to make. If you have to make an important decision, take it to the Lord and ask Him for wisdom. He promises to give it to you generously (James 1:5). Then wait until you have peace in your spirit.

 2) Seek the counsel of Godly people who know you. They may be your parents or some older, mature Christians in your church. Tell them about the decision you are facing, and get their input. They have walked the road of life farther than you have and may have encountered the very same potholes and minefields that you are now going through.

 3) Trust that God will show you the right decision to make. One of my favorite Scripture verses is Psalm 32:8: “I will instruct you and teach you the way to go. I will watch over you and be your advisor.” What better advisor to have than Holy Spirit! If you listen for His voice and obey it, you will never make a wrong decision.
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