What are We Gonna Do, Hopper?

Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisors they succeed. Proverbs 15:22

“What are we gonna do, Hopper?”  My friend Keilan and I were in the middle of a contract negotiation battle that eroded to impasse and resulted in a lockout.

Driving two hours from negotiations in Atlanta back to fellow employees in Calera Alabama was more than enough time to weigh options and prepare our presentation.  The company had its top advisors detailing their position and our local union had its top advisors conveying our desires.

I said, “This contract is bigger than both of us.  We will present our results to our co-employees and make a decision based on what they tell us and what we know.”

Decisions are difficult, but we make them from the moment we open our eyes in the morning until we close them that night.  Our faithfulness in serving the Lord increases or diminishes determining on our decisions.

You may be facing a monumental decision about a change of career, a calling in the ministry, or a life changing commitment.  Seek the Lord in prayer and ask for wisdom from Christian brothers and sisters.  Most decisions are too large to handle without Christian wisdom.

August 15, 2018 Devotion from The Richly Indwelling Word: A 365 Day Devotional Vol. 3