We do this each and everyday that we live! Every morning when we wake up, we make decisions on how we are going to get the things done we have planned for that day. But we really need to think about whether or not we are making the right decisions. We must keep God and Jesus in the daily decisions we make. Look at James 4:13- 15: “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit.’ Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.’” We need to include God in our decisions so He can help us make the right ones!

We can go back into the Old Testament and find where God let men make their own decisions and a lot of them made the wrong ones. In Numbers 13, look at the story of God telling Moses to send men to spy out the Promised Land. When they went in and saw that some of the inhabitants of the land were of large stature they came back telling the people of Israel that they couldn’t fight these people. So all of them but two made the decision to bring back bad reports and not trust in God. This is just one of the bad decisions that the Israelites made and as we read the Old Testament they make more.

Another one that comes to mind is Achan when he took the accursed items from Jericho. As we read what happened to him and his family it’s scary enough that I want to tell you not to do any thing against God’s word! But we can’t put the blame on them only, for in today’s society we make the same mistakes even though we have the Scriptures showing us where they went wrong. The best decision that I can express to all of you is the decision to accept God’s Word, because it is the truth! With this I remind you of what Jesus said in John 15:1-4: “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away, and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine , neither can you unless you abide in Me.” I read these scriptures for they are the truth. And when we are faced with making decisions we always have to look for the truth.

Now after reading that, how can we reach out to people that haven’t heard the word to help them make the right decision? I think we can do this by making the decision ourselves that we are going to help Jesus find more followers and build up His church. We find in Acts 2:42-47: “And they all continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods and divided them among all, as anyone had need. So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.”

You can see the early church made these good decisions, and I don’t see why we can’t continue in the good spirit of bringing more to church so that we can get God’s word out there and bring some more souls into the body of Christ. Now believe me, you can’t have too many of them body parts! And the record goes on to say in John 3:15-17: “...that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” Also read Mark 16:15-16: “And He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.’” This is the best advice that we can live and make decisions by!