Decisions - Decisions

TatankaIke and I are two peas in a pod!  I love him so much.  Jordan and Karin are not plagued with our ability to think too much about a simple decsion.  To hike or not to hike - that is the question.  Usually no matter the decision, we find ourselves totally happy.  Yesterday we found ourselves halfway up the lower face on hiking trails.  There we stood, me wobbly kneed in my running shoes walking over small rocks and Ike in his flip flops!

He talked and talked ab0ut all that he was seeing and all that was around us.  I smiled and listened and decided this day did not need to end.  I suggested that we go back down, get lunch and get some decent shoes and water and then restart our hike.  The mere suggestion spurred questions of how long we would hike, would we still go in the hot tub, how long would it take to each lunch and what did I want to do.  It was too much thinking and we decided simply to take the day as it came to us.  The day was awesome.

I often toil too much over decisions and find myself saying I want this and then feeling like I want that.  Over the years, I have learned to manage this process and ultimately in decisions of what to wear - the impact is little if I wear flip-flop.

Unfortunately there is little room for this type of indecision in leadership.  It troubles me greatly to see with what great ease leaders and emerging leaders cast aside what was the call of God yesterday to move on to the new call of God today.  How can leaders make God be so fickle?  How can our indecision become the indecision of God?

Christian leaders need to get a clue and get quiet before they claim to have "heard from God."  It makes us all look stupid as the leaders of today flip-flop in their "call of God."  One day one thing and the next day a whole new call accompanied by a load of rationalization to explain how God changed his mind. 

It is one thing to change your mind about what to wear but if I changed the direction of our family in ministry or the state we would live in every other week, my kids would be insane and unstable.  They need solid long-term goals and Karin and I need to be careful to develop the long-term goals based on surety and solid foundations.  I wonder if the people who are trying to follow Christian leaders are just insane because leaders flit from one thing to another seeking to acheive their goals rather than the long term stable direction that God can provide them.  I am reminded of James 1:5-8 that describes God's answers as constant and flitting as being tossed among the waves.