God's principles for our everyday choices
February 9 - 15, 2025 | Always Peachy Devotionals | God's Principles Week 2
Do you ever wish you knew what choice to make?
Life gets complicated really quickly, without even trying. Work, family, health, friends — they pile up fast and add complexity to decisions that used to be simple. Before you know it, you don’t know which way to choose.
Decision paralysis is a thing, and the crazier that life gets, the more all of us struggle with it. When all you have are good options, how do you know what to choose? When all you have are bad options, the question is the same.
Wouldn’t it be great to have access to all the answers? Well, I’m not sure that there’s a one-size-fits-all answer. Our individual circumstances are too different. What we face from day to day is as unique as we are.
That’s what is so awesome about the Bible and God’s wisdom. What the Lord has given us in His Word is the foundation for how to make every choice we will ever face. Every situation, every struggle, every circumstance, you can find guidance in God’s Word for what to do.
No, God isn’t specific. But He has laid out the boundaries for what is right, what is wrong, what pleases Him, what results in blessings, and what way we shouldn’t go.
That’s what we are talking about this week: God’s principles for the daily choices we have to make.
Monday - Seek wisdom (Proverbs 2:6-8)
Tuesday - Be fair (Proverbs 16:11)
Wednesday - Work hard (Proverbs 6:6-11)
Thursday - Don’t bribe people (Proverbs 15:27)
Friday - Don’t lie or steal (Proverbs 21:5-6)
If we can hold on to these principles in every situation we face, we will always have an idea of what to do and what direction to go.
It may not always makes sense as far as human reasoning goes, but God’s ways rarely go the same direction as our ways. That’s why it’s so important to trust Him first.
So, of course, if we’re talking about trusting God over our own human logic, there is really only one passage we should memorize this week, Proverbs 3:5-6.
This is my life verse. I picked it when I was young. I found myself facing a difficult choice, and I found this passage and held on to it as hard as I could. And I can tell you, after decades of applying this verse to my life, it has never led me wrong. The truth of these verses have never drawn me the wrong direction.
Trust God. Trust God more than you trust your own instincts, your own plans, your own logic. Do things His way. Do life His way. See what happens. He won’t let you down, and He won’t ever fail to show you which direction you should go when you ask and trust.
Praying for you guys this week.
Amy
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