Don't Second Guess Yourself! Sample

DON'T LOOK BACKWARDS 

Once you’ve made a decision, it’s so important to keep your faith built up. 

I once knew a young man who faced a decision about switching jobs. He loved the job he had, but the new job offered exciting new career possibilities and a great deal more money. So he sought God and eventually felt led to take the new job. It went fine, even though there were things about the new job that he didn’t like, just as there is with any job. 

After a while, though, he started thinking about how much he liked his other job and he began to wish that he hadn’t taken the new position. At the same time, some difficult things began to happen in his personal life. As a result, he began to doubt his original decision to change jobs, as if none of the personal things would have happened if he’d kept the other job. Once he began doubting, he spent all his time looking backwards. 

While it’s okay to reflect on decisions and even change them if you think you made the wrong one, it’s not okay to spend all your time looking backwards, second-guessing yourself. That will just lead to misery for you, and everyone around you. Don’t spend all your time wishing you had done things differently. 

Anyone can look at their current situation and want to be someone else or somewhere else. That is discontentment and it’s largely a choice you make. Learn to be content. In First Timothy 6:6 Paul says, “Now godliness with contentment is great gain” and in Philippians 4:11 he says, “I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content.” Don’t let discontentment steal your victory or make you miserable.  

Once you’ve made a decision, do everything you can to move forward and to be content in your situation. Stay in the Word and trust God to tell you if you need to change, but otherwise, keep going in the direction you need to go. Don’t look back or wish for a different outcome. This is where you are now. Keep trusting God to move forward.

You know the old saying, “You can’t drive forward looking in the rear view mirror.” It’s true. If we carry that analogy even further, you could say that if you try it, you’ll crash! The same is true in life. It takes faith to keep walking out a decision you’ve made and sometimes success takes time. Don’t let doubt rob you of God’s good plan.