Support Decision Makers
At the moment playgrounds are open and outdoor gyms are not. The outdoor gym I have used is right next to a playground and I frankly don’t see the logic of closing the one and not the other. So it is a decision I personally do not like and don’t understand. Yet I have a great amount of sympathy with those who have to make judgment calls about things; they have to make decisions. It is easy to criticize those who make decisions. And yet judgment calls have to be made.
I feel as a general principle we should encourage those who are making decisions. We may not agree with the decisions they are making, but unless a clear principle is being breached and life endangered, it is only wholesome to support those making the judgment calls. It is all part of our honouring God to be supporting leadership.
Theodore Roosevelt said ‘In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing’. Obviously such a generalism has to be caveated. However, it is a good maxim. Decisions made mean a direction is set. No decision means no direction.
To undermine a decision maker by continually carping about their decisions even over the must trivial and nuanced of understandings is not wholesome. A decision maker needs to be encouraged in his task. So let us pray for and support our parents, fathers, teachers, church elders, politicians and bosses. When decision makers are encouraged they will be more inclined to prompt and beneficial decisions. A decision maker wearied by continual criticism means all under his influence are harmed.
So if you come across decision maker in your sphere of home, church, government or work who is poor at making decisions, it may be you who have contributed to this by your continual carping.