Page 48 Should I get an undergraduate degree, a masters degree, or a doctorate? What job should I apply for and accept? Should I seek a job promotion or a raise? If so, when and how? Where should I live? Should I rent, buy, or build a house? Should I get married? Who should I marry? If I marry, should I have kids? How many kids should I have? Should I use birth control? If so, what type of birth control? Should I have a home birth, use a midwife, or have a hospital birth? In what manner should I raise my children? Should I discipline them? If so, how and when should I discipline them? Should I home school, send them to private school or public school? What foods should I eat and what foods should I avoid? Should I exercise? If so, how, how often, when, and where? When I’m sick, should I see a doctor, believe God, take medicine or natural supplements? How should I manage my money? Should I make a budget?
Our eyes need to be on God’s Word. Specifically we need to know and trust by faith the promises He has revealed to us in Scripture. We need to train ourselves to see the unseen. We need to view His doing as the ultimate reality. We need to keep His character and His truths forefront in our minds. We need to walk not by what we see, but by faith in what might be invisible, yet what we know to be true. Then and only then will we be able to cut through the smokescreen of this world and have the confidence to conduct ourselves with hope and courage, knowing God is in charge and He will keep His promises.
Randy Smith