What is supposed to happen is that we learn from our mistakes and move on - learning d strengthening ourselves as we go. But often we don't do that. We don't learn. We just keep making one wrong choice after the other.
"Those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it." - Gorge Santayana.
One way to make good decisions is to look at all of the possibilities and ask, "What could go wrong?" If something CAN go wrong, it probably will. That's called Murphy's law. Weigh the negatives against the positive things that could come out of it.
But the best way to make good decisions is to pray about them and then wait patiently on The Lord. The main problem with "waiting patiently" is that we usually don't want to wait and the patience is not in our DNA.
I made a decision recently that I thought was God-honoring. I thought I had waited an appropriate amount of time. I was sure I had made the right choice but when I took a step in that direction I soon found out that God wanted me to take another course of action.
What do we do then? We could doubt our decision making ability or we could simply move ahead, acknowledging that God has redirected us for His glory. Are we willing to follow God's leading? Or will we stand by our original decision, not wanting to admit that we were wrong.
And not necessarily "wrong" but just not what God wants us to do right now.
God wants us to be obedient. He also wants us to move. We should not be paralyzed by our lack of confidence. Instead we should swallow hard, take a deep breath and move ahead. If God wants us to do something it will most likely succeed. But we have to be the ones willing to move. We must allow ourselves to be redirected.
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight." - Proverbs 3:5-6
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