Go One Way or the Other

by an Old Disciple

"Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set."~  Ezk. 21:16

This past year or so I have experienced such indecision on a certain matter I thought it would drive me crazy at times. I hesitate to mention it, lest I be embarrassed at its triviality. But the devil (or the flesh) made sure I majored on this minor concern every waking moment. Neither prayer, thought, or council, brought any solace of soul. It was especially difficult because any one of the three or four ways I could go would please the Lord, and better me as a Christian.

Finally in my desperation and exasperation I gave up. Then the answer came! The Holy Spirit seemed to lay upon my heart the words of Jonathan's armourbearer, "Do all that is thine heart." 

After briefly meditating on the choice I was most comfortable with, I settled it in my heart; then the double-mindedness and unsettledness ceased. As someone has said, "When Christ has His way with you, you can have your way with Him."    

Most certainly we must always, first and foremost, ask God's choice in any and all matters of life; big and small. But after having done so, many times He will reverse the question, "What would you like?" Is this not what we answer our obedient children when asked, "Father, what do you think I should do?" Do not we often say, "What do you want to do?" And so it is with God! After all, who better to make a choice concerning one's person than a Spirit-filled child of God, who wants and desires only His glory?

"Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision." Joel 3:14

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