Thoughts from Mark "Hat" Rackley

Trust in the Lord with all your heart
    and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
    and he will make your paths straight.

• Proverbs 3:5-6

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

• Romans 12:2

Your word is a lamp for my feet,
    a light on my path.

• Psalms 119:105

“For one’s own piece of mind I think it is best to set a time limit for one’s decisions. (I mean, decisions of mere pleasure where duty and necessity don’t come in.)’”

• C.S. Lewis, Letters to Arthur Greaves

I love that idea.  I am not wired that way, but I love the idea.

But how many decisions do we make for pleasure alone that have nothing to do with duty or necessity?  I took some bad jobs over the years because my family needed food on the table.  I have lived at a few addresses that were not ideal.  It was the only place we could afford.

But when you buy tickets to a concert, you may have a hard time selling them if you change your mind.

If you want to adopt the time limit on some decisions, you may want to avoid the large package stores, the wholesale warehouses.  If you buy one item and then decide the other forty-nine of the case of fifty are not what you want, throwing them away can get expensive.  If you want the time limit, look long and hard for the free samples.  If it did not work out, no harm done.

But as for the decisions of duty and necessity, I will never regret marrying my wife, although she has been gone nearly three years.

And the most necessary decision I ever made was accepting Jesus as my Savior.

We all make bad decisions, but pushing all of our chips onto the table and having God make us into new creations…  That is a decision with no time limit.

Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.