Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
 
 
 

 With the pressure of time and a punctual office manager I sit here trying to decide on what the message will be for this month’s Messenger.  Should it be one that is theologically driven or maybe it should reflect some good old southern wisdom.  Should it be an original experience or better yet a reprint of a poem or story from another author (copyright laws apply).  I had to make a decision soon. I was totally undecided as to what to do. Little did I know God was already allowing me to experience what I should be writing about.  The horrible feeling of being “undecided.”
 
 Arthur Bryant, the English historian wrote, “There is nothing more destructive of action than a tortured undecided mind.”
 
 Today’s culture has drawn away from the ability to make hard and fast decisions.  This ailment has turned homes into arenas of frustration. Indecision in the workplace has encouraged the acceptance of mediocrity.  Waitresses accumulate hours standing by table sides waiting for customers to make some kind of a decision from the smallest of menus. And of course there was a sign that was displayed in a local library which read, “National Procrastination Day Has Been Postponed.”  Just an amusing way of saying “Make a Decision!”
 
 Meet me at Matthew 16:15 ( I’ll wait).  Here we see Jesus asking His disciples to make a decision.  “Who do you say I am?”  The Christian faith demands an answer to this question.  Unfortunately most people are not aware that this question is directed at them and so they shy away, not because of some intellectual doubts or even a grave moral problem.  They are just not ready to make a decision.  We must remember during this Lenten season that the Christian faith is not merely a knowing of Christian history, but it’s all about making a “DECISION.”  What will yours be?
 
                                                            John