North OR South. In Christ we have a choice: we can lean on our own limited understanding OR we can turn to God, pray and discern His Will for us. (Pr 3:5-6) As we surrender our lives to Jesus as Lord and continue to be transformed into His Image, we become more sensitive to when we reach a point where the decisions we are about to make, can lead us one way or the complete opposite way. It is like we come to a fork in the road and must decide which way we will go: God’s way or ours.
Faith OR fear. That’s a great example I love to talk about because we cannot walk in both of those at the same time either. We must learn that, even if we FEEL fear, it does NOT have to control our actions. Instead of allowing fear to paralyze us or to cause us to make MMI decisions, we sense that we are at that fork in the road, where we must decide one way OR the other, and we choose to turn to God and pray about what He would have us choose. When we turn to Him, trusting God will guide us, then we are NOT walking in fear, but in Faith. Fear no longer controls us- Faith does instead- and even if we FEEL fear, we move forward doing what we know we can do and trust God to do the rest. That’s walking in Faith, not allowing fear to force us to act in ways that are self-destructive. That’s choosing Life over death!
(MMI = the fallen “Me, Myself and I” mentality, where our decisions are based on selfish Pride)
<>< Peace, Diane
