Making Wise Decisions in Your Life

Verses:  Ecclesiastes 10:1-20

My thoughts about the verses:

We all need to start this devotion by thinking of the most foolish thing that we have ever done.  Now think of the wisest decisions that you have ever done.  Which one are you more apt to tell people?  Why do we decide which one of those moments we will share with someone else?

Think about any sitcom that you have watched that just made you bend over double in laughter.  Does it make you laugh because you have been in the same situation?  At the time that the situation was happening you thought I am doing this the right way.  Then you come to realize that you made an absolutely foolish decision.  In fact, people that saw it or hear about it can’t even imagine how foolish a decision you made. 

We have to remember that we are to live our life making wise decision.  We shouldn’t be ashamed of what we do.  When we look back at the foolish things we do we often don’t admit that we actually did them.  Then when we do admit it we are like I can’t believe I did it at the time and often it makes us chuckle from our own foolishness.

It reminds me of the game “Never Had.”  People ask questions to others in the party if they never had done something.  The more crazy the question the funnier it will be.  Those that have done what the question asked raise their hand.  Then everyone starts to smile and laugh because they find out secrets about people that they never would have thought the person would have done.  It is even funnier if only one person raises their hand.

As you play the game you start to realize that you have really made some crazy decisions in your life.  You made decisions that you wish you could go back and change.  When you are the only one that answers the question you even feel more foolish.  We feel if others have made the same mistakes that we are not that bad off.

Yet, how do we base how wise we are.  Do you base it on a percentage of wise decisions?  Do we base it on how many times we made foolish decisions?  Do we base it on what others have done in the same situation?  Do we base it on how much the decision affects our life?  Are we truly willing to accept that we make a lot of foolish decisions?

If you read the scripture closely you can see how every decision that you make is important.  We have to be careful what we do each and every day.  We have to understand that foolish decisions can take us down roads that we can never come back from.  Just think about all the people that go to jail just because of one foolish decision.  Do you think they wished they had done things differently?

We need to remember the decision that we have to be most careful when making is whether or not to ask Jesus in our life.  Have you made this decision wisely or foolishly?  Have you asked Jesus to come into your life?  Do you realize that as long as you’re a live you can make this decision wisely?  Yet, we have to remember we never know how long we will live.  Why not decide the wise choice and ask God in our life today.

Prayer:

We praise you God for your love.  We thank you for the gift of wisdom.  We ask right now that you help us make wise decisions.  Help us to not make foolish decisions.  In the name of the Savior we pray.  Amen

Questions:

Have you made the wisest choice to ask God in your life?  Have you done foolish things that you wished you could change?  Are you ready to make wise decisions the rest of your life?