Just Do Something!

I have started reading Kevin DeYoung's, Just Do Something. In the beginning section of the book he makes the case that most of us in our current culture of mind-boggling choices and options, (can you say, Internet?) become paralyzed with a lack of ability to make a choice. For Christians, this reality can sometimes be shrouded in language of, "I just don't know what God's wants for me right now."

Kevin writes:

We can't stand the thought of cutting off any of our options. If we choose A, we feel the sting of not having B and C and D. As a result, every choice feels worse than no choice at all and when we do make an important choice, we end up with buyers' remorse, wondering if we are settling for second best. Or, worse yet, we end up living in our parents' basement indefinitely as we try to find ourselves and hear God's voice. Our freedom to do anything and go anywhere ends up feeling like bondage more than liberty, because decision making feels like pain, not pleasure.

To many young people today have no stability, no certainty, no predictability, little decisiveness, and lots of self-doubt. It takes longer and longer for people to settle down. And some never do. I'm not advocating that everyone move back to his hometown and take whatever job is available (though that would be at least a step toward something for some people). Some of you should go overseas and others will move to new places. But I am advocating floundering less, making a difference for God sooner, and - above all - not spiritualizing, year after year, our inability to make decisions in the elusive quest to discover God's will. I'm arguing that our eagerness to know God's will is probably less indicative of a heart desperately wanting to obey God and more about our heads spinning with all the choices to be made.