Decisions

I heard something today that stirred my thoughts about decision making. My thoughts on this weren't concrete enough to put in a post this morning.( I'm not sure if they're solid enough to make sense now but I'll try.)
Then my 10yr. asked me a question. (It seems I'm getting several deep questions this week.) He asked, "What does the word LUST mean?"
I had to think about that a minute because to the pure all things are pure and the word lust does have a meaning. To lust means to desire something very strongly. This could be power, fame, money, the opposite sex, etc. (After I answered this question, the question I had deep in my mind was, " What peaked his interest to want to know what the word lust meant?")

His mind accepted my answer which I thought over once more and thought was pretty on target when he came back at me with another question. "What's wrong with that?"
(This is where I'm thinking, "OK, that's a legitimate question......except that who told him it was wrong?") I really didn't know the answer to it so I send him off to his Daddy who I was sure would answer the question better. He did. He told him to lust meant to covet after something.
That in my mind would describe it better. See, God knew children needed dads for questions like these. It also helped me with my thoughts on decisions.

Lust has a lot to do with our decisions and we all make decisions within our days. We make decisions about jobs, moves, things we want our children involved in, things we choose to be apart of or not.... etc, and we usually have firm believes behind those choices. How much the pull lust has on us concerning those decisions is quite different from individual to individual. What feeds our heart will have a lot to do with how much hold lust has over us.

If God is our Lord then he should weigh heavily first in our decision making. How will the decision affect our relationship with God?
If we have a spouse then he should be second for we've entered into a covenant with him or her also. How will our decision affect that covenant?
If we have children, then they should be third on our priority list because we are caretakers and responsible for their physical as well as their spiritual needs while in the stage of childhood.
How will our decision affect our stewardship over them?

These 3 questions will keep things in the right perspective and help us in our decisions day to day. Not to mention they will help keep lust at bay.

Now, if only I could keep my son from perusing through my Janet Oke, Frank Peretti.... books because he reads his library books too fast and runs out of reading material, I'd have one less decision to make.

Yours Truly,