Decisions Decisions

Decide on a plan.
Having drawn up the different plans, and evaluated each prayerfully. It is time to make a decision. Decide which plan is most appropriate. Then make the hardest decision…to implement the plan! Decide to accomplish the goal. Make a commitment!

The hardest part of doing anything is making the decision to do it. It does not have to be a perfect plan. There are no perfect plans - except God’s plans.

There is an old military saying (paraphrased slightly).

“A perfect plan executed half-way, is not half as good as an imperfect plan executed ‘all the way’.”

Earlier it was said not making a decision to change, is making a decision not to change.

To quote and earlier passage, “Change requires a decision. A person HAS to make a choice. “Either do, or do not, there is NO try!” is the quote from Yoda, in ‘Star Wars [The Empire Strikes Back]’. The Bible is a little more direct. Revelation 3:15, 16 says, “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.” Additionally James 5:16 says, “But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.” Yoda paraphrases it very appropriately.”

One MUST decide to implement the plan. Otherwise, this has been purely an intellectual exercise.

One must decide to implement the plan, and commit to ‘executing’ the plan. Keeping the commitment to execute the plan is the second hardest part. This is not a ‘New Years’ resolution. It can not be a ‘temporary’, unfulfilled promise to one’s self. This lifestyle change goes with the changes one has already made. Some people find it easier to make a commitment when one has ‘accountability’. If that is what one needs to stick with it, then become ‘accountable’. Tell someone that will encourage and pray for one’s success. If necessary, write a ‘Contract With God’. I have heard many testimonies from people that wrote a ‘covenant’ to God, telling Him of there intentions. Then each day, week, month - reviewed the ‘covenant’ - the promise to God. If this is what one needs to choose, and fulfill the commitment - DO IT!