DECISION MAKING

JUST THINKING

Do not allow the complaints , the pressure and the attitude of  people around you,  the delay of God's promise and the circumstances you are faced with and the ones steering you in the face to make you compromise or make you feel compelled and go against the will of God and take decisions because it may cost you pain.
1 Samuel 13:11 - 12, And Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Michmash,
then I said, ‘The Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the Lord .’ Therefore I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.”
Saul was under pressure because a large army from the Philistines came against them, some of the Israelites with him went hiding and some ran away because they were scared. Also, Samuel the prophet had told him he would come within seven days to make the sacrifices they normally made before any battle but he didn't make it within those days. So,  Saul being under pressure of the army against him, his people complaining and running away assumed that if he didn't do it,  he and his people would perish. He carried out the sacrifice he was not supposed to carry out. Immediately he did it,  Samuel showed up. As a result of his lack of patience, he lost his kingdom to someone else.
Have you taken any decision(s) in haste because you were under pressure and you felt God was too slow in coming through with his promises? Where you happy afterwards or did you regret it later?
My advice is that you should not take decisions when you are standing, anxious, happy, sad, angry,  under pressure, in a hurry and so on because you might regret it later on.  In taking decisions,  you have to be calm, at times patient, get all the facts and information,  pray to God about it, maybe get people's opinions and advice. Decision making is a process which involves a lot of factors and dynamism.