The title of this blog is a question that has been playing on my mind alot recently. How will you know it's the right decision if you never make it?
Sometimes in life we are left standing at a crossroads, needing to make a decision but feeling too afraid to incase it turns out to be the wrong one!!!
One of my favourite scriotures is the same scripture that Joesph Smith himself read before going into the grove of trees .. James 1:5 "if any of ye lack wisdom let him ask of God" The obvious thing to do when we are struggling to make a secision is to ask Heavenly Father to help us make it. We already know he has a plan for us, he knows what we can do and all we can be if we are faithful and he is always and will always guide us if we are willing to let him.
Search, ponder and pray has been my motto for finding answers and making decisions for years but what happens when you get the answer... or at least you think you do. what do you do then? What happens when the answer you recieve is not the one you wanted or when you're not sure if the answer is even an answer at all. I have experienced these feelings more than even in the past year, as I have been thinking and planning my future. I have had to make decisions which have scared me and if I am totally honest when I have been making them I have not been 100% sure they have been the right ones!!!!!
Then I found that quote and I realised that sometimes we have to trust in the Holy Ghost, put our faith in our Heavenly Father, trust our instincts and jump!!!
Yes it's scary and sometimes you may go wrong, but going wrong is a part of life!! We need to experience the negative in order to appreciate the good!!
I wonder how many blessings or special experiences I have missed out on by giving into my fear of getting it wrong in the past.
I am tired of standing on the shoreline too afraid to dip my toes in the water incase I fall, so from now on I am giving up being afraid and I am going to jump in with both feet!! I know that as long as I am faithful I will never jump alone because my Heavenly Father will be right there with me!!
After all how will I know if it is the right decision if I never make it!!
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