Bringing Leadership Home: Decision Making at Home

Bringing Leadership Home: Decision Making at Home

We are sum total of the decisions we have ever made and we are where our last decisions brought us. Decisions are powerful. They determine the direction we invest our energy and pursuit in. Decisions help us to explore the unknown terrains of the future into our destinies.

Everyone makes decisions. It is a personal responsibility with consequences. Decision making is the display of personal sovereignty and free will. It is both the responsibility and a right of the individual. Until the power of attorney is given one way or the other, no one has the right to usurp that right if such won't be at the receiving end of the consequences.

In leadership, this sovereignty is shared to a leader with the trust that such will take decisions on behalf of the individuals in the system that'll represent their best interests and take them to a preferred envisioned place. That's why the choice of who leads is a personal decision that must be well informed.

The future isn't a place anyone has been before and so the choice of who leads into it can't be based on frivolities. It must be based on adequate knowledge of the most possible situations on the way and on the basic knowledge of what it takes to navigate such paths and terrains.

Great organizations are built on decisions made at different times in the lives of those organisations. We can build great homes too if we bring home the same decision making processes that brought out the plans that translated to greatness in those organisations.

Some things affect the quality of our decisions. A major influence is the knowledge pool or register concerning the issues and elements over which decisions are to be made. The quality of decision made is directly proportional to the quality of knowledge and understanding available to the decision maker on the subject and on the elements involved.

Decisions are children of wisdom, wisdom must be informed by understanding of the quality and quantity of knowledge available. When knowledge and understanding inform the mouth, it is said that such a tongue is wise... [My Offline Bible] Proverbs 2
6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

[My Offline Bible] Proverbs 10
13 In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

Another thing that affect the quality of our decisions is self control and personal discipline. Hasty decisions do not permit thinking through to provide solutions. Our immediate needs and pressure call for attention and that call most often than not will push to hasty decisions that didn't consider or understand all the facts. That's why emotions aren't our best guide in making decisions. Our emotions, either the 'feel good' or the 'feel bad' ones aren't reliable and shouldn't be burdened with decision making. You can't base a decision on how things look on the outside, or on the trends of the moment and expect a good outcome.

In marriage, emotions play very good roles in making things enjoyable but such roles should be kept under the control of wisdom when decisions are to be made. Both anger and mirth don't make great decisions. Coitus is about the most emotion controlled act in marriage, yet it must be done with discretion otherwise it may lead to pregnancies unprepared for. Self control is indispensable in decision making even in the decision of who to marry.

While we fall in love and we have good feelings doing so, we can't rely on such indiscriminate, unstable and blind mood to make lasting decisions. We won't do that in our businesses. You won't do that to choose the managers and executive officers of your blue chip company. Why use that to pick who you marry?

There are other factors that affect the quality of decisions we make but these are the basics within our context here.

The downside of this everywhere is the lack of the full and exact knowledge of the exigencies that may come up in future. And as Christians this is where God comes in.

God's plan to lead us was based on the fact that there is a way that seems right to a man which the end is destruction. Proverbs 14:12;16:25.

Nobody wants to make a bad decision that brings bad outcomes but we are limited in knowledge and we misjudge and come out badly...

But the covenant we have with God offers us among other things the indwelling of the Spirit of God. We, according to Christ in John chapter 3 must be born again to enter into the kingdom of God and when we receive the new birth we receive the nature and the Spirit of God to carry us around as the wind that blows. We are born of the Spirit to be borne by the Spirit. That's why Apostle Paul in Romans 8 said as many as are led by the Spirit, they are the sons of God. Sons of God are led by the Spirit. The path of righteousness isn't accessible without the leading of the Shepherd. In deep matters of life and of the spirit, we are sheep who without the Shepherd is lost. Psalms 23.

So as people born and borne by the Spirit of God, we need to voluntarily submit and yield our sovereignty to the Lordship of Christ and of His Spirit in every matter of life to be safe and saved in decision making.

This isn't just relevant in businesses and in ministry, it is most important in home building both in finding who to marry and in maintaining a godly home.

Isaac's wife was barren he had to consult God and God opened her womb. The pregnancy was troublesome, Rebecca consulted the Lord and the Lord revealed the destinies of the twins. And I'm sure that had effect on Rebecca in the upbringing of the boys. If we seek, we will find. God still leads today!

The information and wisdom we need are in the Spirit of wisdom and revelation and the Holy Spirit can feed our spirits with what we should know per time to run favorably on the racetrack set before us. When we are led by the Lord, we are saved from the rigor of seeking relevant knowledge and processing them. Such knowledge may not be available in public domain... people are mysteries only God can unravel. The heart of man is deceitful and desperately wicked, who can know it. No wonder God looks at the heart while man looks at the face. We will always need more than the cv or profile of men to know them. Jer 17:9, 1 Samuel 16:7

With God and Christ being the two topmost on the organogram structure of the home, decisions shouldn't be made without due consultation and consideration of the way they'll want to run things. You won't permit that in your businesses and corporations. Though it is a saving grace for us. Though the head of the wife is the husband, Christ also is the head of the man and God the head of Christ. For a good outcome and order, the hierarchy must be adhered to. That's the way decisions are made that raised great organisations and that way we can build great homes and families too.

[My Offline Bible] 1 Corinthians 11
3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

The multiplier effect of decisions made concerning our homes can never be over emphasised and that's a reason why the best practices in decision making both spiritually and physically must be adhered to, to get best results. We can't do that at work and abandon it when we get home... That's the essence of Bringing Leadership Home.

My prayer is that grace be released abundantly to make decisions that'll power our homes to greatness and absolute peace and prosperity in Jesus name. Good morning

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