Decision Making
Men of Action—The cause of God demands men who can see
quickly and act instantaneously at the right time and with power. If
you wait to measure every difficulty and balance every perplexity you
meet, you will do but little. You will have obstacles and difficulties
to encounter at every turn, and you must with firm purpose decide to
conquer them, or they will conquer you.
Sometimes various ways and purposes, different modes of opera-
tion in connection with the work of God, are about evenly balanced in
the mind; and it is at this very point that the nicest discrimination is
necessary. And if anything is accomplished to the purpose, it must be
done at the golden moment. The slightest inclination of the weight in
the balance should be seen, and should determine the matter at once.
Long delays tire the angels.—
Gospel Workers, 133, 134
.
Hesitant Leadership is Weak Leadership—It is even more ex-
cusable to make a wrong decision sometimes than to be continually
in a wavering position; to be hesitating, sometimes inclined in one
direction, then in another. More perplexity and wretchedness result
from thus hesitating and doubting than from sometimes moving too
hastily.
I have been shown that the most signal victories and the most fear-
ful defeats have been on the turn of minutes. God requires promptness
of action. Delays, doubtings, hesitation, and indecision frequently give
the enemy every advantage.—
Gospel Workers, 134
.
Quick Action But Weigh Evidence—God has given to each in-
dividual judgment, and this gift He wants His workers to use and
improve. The president of a conference must not consider that his
individual judgment is to be the judgment of all.
In no conference should propositions be rushed through without
time being taken by the brethren to carefully weigh all sides of the
question. Because the president of a conference suggested certain
plans, it has sometimes been considered unnecessary to consult the
Lord about them. Thus propositions have been accepted that were l
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