Tomar uma decisão
Tomar decisões com sabedoria é um dos maiores desafios da vida. A Bíblia nos ensina a buscar a Deus em oração, na Palavra e no conselho, confiando que Ele dirige os nossos passos.
Buscar a Deus
Se algum de vós tem falta de sabedoria, peça a Deus. Ele dá generosamente e sem repreensão a todos os que pedem.
And if any of you needeth wisdom, ask he of God, which giveth to all men largely, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given to him.
And this is the trust which we have to God [or that we have in God], that whatever thing we ask after his will, he shall hear us.
If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just, that he forgive to us our sins, and cleanse us from all wickedness.
Have thou trust in the Lord, of all thine heart; and lean thou not to thy prudence.
In all thy ways think on him, and he shall dress thy goings.
In all thy ways think on him, and he shall dress thy goings.
For I know the thoughts which I think on you, saith the Lord, the thoughts of peace, and not of torment, that I give to you an end and patience.
Conselho e direção
Onde não há conselho os planos se frustam. Toda Escritura é útil para nos guiar nas decisões da vida.
Where a governor is not, the people shall fall; but health is, where be many counsels.
Lots be sent into the bosom; but they be tempered of the Lord.
He that will go away from a friend, seeketh occasions, that is, feigneth causes; in all time he shall be despisable.
A fool receiveth not the words of prudence; no but thou say those things, that be turned in his heart.
A wicked man, when he cometh into depth of sins, despiseth whole-some lore, and commandment; but scandal and shame pursueth [or followeth] him.
Deep water is the words of the mouth of a man; and a strand floating over is the well of wisdom.
It is not good to take the person of a wicked man in doom, that thou bow away from the truth of doom.
The lips of a fool meddle [or mingle] themselves with chidings; and his mouth stirreth strives.
The mouth of a fool is[the] defouling of him; and his lips be the falling of his soul.
The words of a double-tongued man be as simple; and they come unto the inner things of the womb. Dread casteth down a slow man; forsooth the souls of men turned into women’s condition shall have hunger.
He that is nesh, and dissolute, either unsteadfast, in his work, is the brother of a man destroying his works.
A full strong tower is the name of the Lord; a just [or rightwise] man runneth to him, and [he] shall be enhanced.
The chattel [or substance] of a rich man is the city of his strength; and as a strong wall compassing him.
The heart of man is enhanced, before that it be broken; and it is made meek, before that it be glorified.
He that answereth before that he heareth, showeth himself to be a fool; and worthy of shame.
The spirit of a man sustaineth his feebleness; but who may sustain a spirit light to be wroth?
For all scripture inspired of God is profitable to teach, to reprove, to chastise, [for] to learn in rightwiseness,
that the man of God be perfect, learned to all good work[s].
And when they came to Mysia, they assayed [or attempted] to go into Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus suffered not them [or suffered them not].
And prophets and doctors were in the church that was at Antioch, in which Barnabas, and Simon, that was called Black, and Lucius Cyreneus, and Manaen, that was the suckling-frère of Herod tetrarch, that is, prince of the fourth part, and Saul were.
And when they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said to them, Set apart ye to me Saul and Barnabas, into the work to which I have taken them.
Then they fasted, and prayed, and laid hands on them, and let them go.
Confiar e seguir
Seja o que for que façais, fazei tudo para a glória de Deus. O sábio ouve a Deus antes de agir.
Therefore whether ye eat, or drink, or do any other thing, do ye all things to the glory of God.
Therefore we that have so great a cloud of witnesses put to [us], do we away all charge, and sin standing about us, and by patience run we to the battle, [or the strife, or fight], purposed to us,
Soothly the Lord appeared to Solomon by sleep in the night, and said, Ask thou that, that thou wilt, that I give it to thee.
And Solomon said, Thou hast done great mercy with thy servant David, my father, as he went in thy sight, in truth, and [in] rightwiseness, and in rightful [or right] heart with thee; thou hast kept to him thy great mercy, and hast given to him a son, sitting on his throne, as it is today.
And now, Lord God, thou hast made thy servant to reign for David, my father; forsooth I am a little child, and not knowing mine out-going and mine in-coming.
And thy servant is in the midst of the people, which thou hast chosen, of [a] people without number, that may not be numbered and reckoned, for multitude.
Therefore thou shalt give to thy servant an heart able to be taught, that is, enlightened of thee, that he may deem thy people, and judge betwixt good and evil; for who may deem this people, thy people, this much people?
Therefore the word pleased before the Lord, that Solomon had asked such a thing.
And the Lord said to Solomon, For thou askedest this word, and askedest not to thee many days, neither riches, neither the lives of thine enemies, but thou askedest to thee wisdom to deem doom,
lo! I have done to thee after thy words, and I have given to thee a wise heart and an understanding, in so much that no man before thee was like thee, neither shall rise up after thee.
Forsooth his wife said to him, Dwellest thou yet in thy simpleness, that is, fondness or foolishness? Curse thou God, and die.
And Job said to her, Thou hast spoken as one of the fond [or foolish] women; if we have taken goods of the hand of the Lord, why forsooth suffer we not evils? In all these things Job sinned not in his lips.