How do we keep ourselves on track? Let’s continue looking at seven simple strategies I use. This second strategy, Decisions, connects and works together with the first. Without decisions, boundaries cannot be set wisely.

As in my last blog, Seven Strategies: No.1 – Boundaries, I share here an initial statement, and three points. You will be able to read more in depth about each strategy and consider how to apply it to your life, in my next book, The Freedom Strategy. Here is my initial statement:

Our decisions emerge out of who we are. The key to making good decisions is knowing our true identity in Christ. That Source becomes the wellspring of our actions, guiding the river of our lives.

The Freedom Strategy, Martina Davis

Three points:

Why do I fear that I will make the wrong decision? Some people make decisions very easily. I have had difficult experiences in the past, even when I thought I had placed my life into God’s hands. There was a fear of ‘getting it wrong’. So I went on a journey deeper into a relationship with God as my Father, uncovering to a greater extent my identity in Christ who died for me, and welcoming His Holy Spirit living inside me. He says, ‘I will not let your foot slip’ (Psalm 121:3a). That identity became the key to unlocking several faulty mindsets, about which you can read in my second book, The Identity Key. God, as a consistently good Father, will never let go of me. That is a promise, and He keeps every promise. That means I can trust that He will show me the right way, and I can trust that He will care for me, showing me the way back on track if I miss it.

It seems so hard to know what to do, which way to go! When we recognise that decisions emerge out of who we are, and that who we are is actually a son or daughter of God when we choose to follow Jesus, then decision-making becomes an act of relationship-building. The need to decide drives us to God, to spend time with Him and learn to hear His voice as a priority over our busyness. Sometimes He may resist showing us the way in order to draw us closer to Him, for our own good, and our development in maturity – precisely to carry out the answers He will give. In His presence, He gives us a hunger for Him. Sometimes, He simply removes the need to decide completely – as we may come to recognise that it was not important.

Why is it important to know who I am when I make decisions? Think about it. Consider a dirty, rusty tap in a cattle trough, in a muddy field. Then consider a trickling spring, fountaining up out of the depths of the earth, untouched and untainted. When we make a decision out of our past, out of shame, or simply out of worldly thinking, that is not going to emerge in the best actions for us. But when we choose to look at ourselves first, as God sees us, in Him and with enormous potential, possibility and all those principles I shared in my first book, The Posture Principle, then our decisions will reflect that vision of ourselves in God. Look at God and Who He is! We are made in His image, so we are made to make good decisions that emerge in good actions. Those actions will be consistent with the freedom we have in Christ. That is why Decisions is the second of seven strategies I cover in my new book The Freedom Strategy.

At the end of my last blog, Seven Strategies: No.1 – Boundaries, I shared a little about myself. I listed activities and accomplishments in a fruitful year, 2020. I did this deliberately to prepare for this blog. First, it shows you that when you decide in God, He makes fruitful what is potentially unfruitful – it was, after all, the pandemic lockdown! Second, however, it led to radical pruning, which I intentionally chose. I had prepared obediently. Now, decisions were needed on boundaries, intent, priorities, focus. Everything seemed important to me. But to God only a few things were necessary. In 2021 I chose to pursue just Writing and Art. More in the next blog, Seven Strategies: No.3 – Beliefs.

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