I came across this book titled “Decision Making by the Book” when it was offered to members of the Daily Bread. Our Daily Bread is a daily devotional for Christians available online as well as in the form of a quarterly booklet.
I subscribe to received the quarterly booklet and like it when they offer CD’s, booklets on special topics although I don’t use the suggested daily devotions all that much.
For Christians, I think the book covers the important topic of God’s sovereign will as well as moral will. Many Christians including me, has often swayed from trying to make decisions based on what we know from the bible and what we know based on the circumstances around us at the time.
The problem with that is many a times, our knowledge of what the bible says is not deep enough and we failed to look at things at a holistic manner. I’m happy to say, this book, short at it is, has managed to clear up some of the ambiguity.
Even though a large section of the initial part of the book is spent explaining God’s sovereign and moral will, I found the latter part is just as useful, even if you are not a Christian.
The reason as the author Haddon Robinson puts it, is that most of us are “self taught” when it comes to making decisions. In chapter 12, he wrote
we have been making decisions since we decided to spit out our spinach
