Decision Making

I'm in decision mode right now.  I've got three significant ministry decisions staring me in the face.  None of them are decisions between right and wrong.  All three of them carry uncertainty about the future.  All three of them contain unpredictable variables. 

I came across two thoughts yesterday that gave me perspective. This post from Jeff Leake is right on the money.  My fall-back plan is always reason.  I'm a logical thinker.  I'm a pragmatist by nature.  But sometimes reason fails and a decision requires revelation.

This article by Steve Gallagher explains why receiving revelation seems foreign.  I think reason fits more naturally with the fast paced life.  It's quite natural for a doer to think his way through problems.  Revelation comes differently.  It comes by waiting.  It comes by meditating.  It comes by listening. 

And it occasionally defies logic.

That's when you need to be sure the voice you heard belonged to God.

Perhaps an often unspoken quality of spiritual leaders is learning to recognize that voice.

Comments

[Jerome]

I find myself at this fork in the road often. Does reason make sense, or does revelation surpass logic. God's voice is required to move on, especially in critical decsions. Nice blog bro!