Get Out of the Middle of the Road.

    Your destiny is not a matter of chance; it’s a matter of choice. Many people have the right aims in life—they just never get around to pulling the trigger. When you determine what you want, you have made the most important decision in your life. You must know what you want in order to attain it.

    "Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He will do it" (Ps. 37:5, NAS). If we are faithful, God will take care of our successes. Peace is the result of a deliberate decision, an adjustment of your life to the will of God. Guidance means I can count on God. Commitment means God can count on me.

    "Not to decide is to decide" (Harvey Cox). Weeds grow lushly in the soil of indecision. Get out of the middle of the road. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you can get knocked down by traffic going both directions. The train of failure usually runs on the track of indecision.

    Because of indecision, one can die before one actually is dead. "Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might say, habit forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others" (H. A. Hopf).

    "There is a fine difference of perspective between getting involved and being committed. In ham and eggs, the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed" (John Alan Price). Until you’re committed, there’s hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. "I will," is a slogan for an exciting, productive life.

    You must choose between boredom and decisions. Don't be like a wheelbarrow—going no further than others push you. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives others have set before them, which they have not chosen themselves. "Never complain about what you permit" (Mike Murdock).

    You’re where you are today because you've chosen to be there. Reality forms around a commitment, and one person with commitment always accomplishes more than a hundred with just an interest. Commitment is what transforms an idea into a reality.

    Be decisive even if it means you'll sometimes be wrong. The key to your future is you can still choose. "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life" (Prov. 4:23). What you commit yourself to be will change you from what you are into what you can be.