Defining Decision Room

You can define "Decision Room" in many different ways, looking at the term from many different perspectives. Life is also filled with various decisions as well. Some of these decisions are much more important than others. For example, if you decide to get married, then the choice of your future spouse is certainly an important decision. On the other hand, choosing whether or not to buy a piece of candy or fruit is a pretty small choice in comparison.

The relative importance of the effects of a decision on your life should therefore have a direct relationship to the amount of thought and consideration which are put into such a decision. (For example, when getting married, it is "marry in haste, repent at leisure".) Wisdom therefore normally demands that important decisions be given careful research and consideration.

On the other hand, there are many important decisions in life that just cannot reasonably be put off until proper research can be done before making the decision. For example, if you are driving down a two-lane road and a car coming towards you swerves in front of you, then you might be faced rather quickly with a "life or death" decision to make. What will you do? This decision would also be a "split second" decision as well, because you could not take more than a split second to decide what to do. Proper research cannot be made about the decision. Rather, a decision must be made very quickly - in fact in an instant.

This illustration of a life-or-death decision shows that, just because a decision is very, very important, it does not always follow that a long period of time must be taken to before making such a decision. Many decisions in life do not in fact follow the general rule that the amount of research and consideration should be proportional to the relative importance of a decision.

The most important decision that you will ever make is your decision of what to do with your soul. Many churches once had an "inquiry room" where people would go who were worried about the state of their souls. If I were to define decision room, I would therefore define decision room as an "inquiry room" where people decide whether or trust Jesus and go to Heaven, or put off the decision, and therefore one day die without Christ and go to Hell. This really is a "life or death" decision.

Usually such a decision room (or "inquiry room") is set up to help those who have been spiritually "awakened" by listening to a preacher preach a sermon based on the Bible. Generally, such a preacher or one of his appointed assistants will then try to help such an "anxious inquirer" to find Christ as his or her own personal Savior and thus avoid dying one day and then dropping into the flames of Hell.

Certainly the most important decision room in your life will be the place where you either trust Jesus, or else reject Him by putting off such a decision until a "more convenient hour". Nevertheless, you do not actually need to be in any special "decision room" in order to trust Jesus to save you from your sins.

As was the case with the driver who was approaching an impending collision, this really is a split-second, "life or death" decision that you must make. The reason is that if you put off this decision until you can "do more research", you may well never get another chance, since God is the one who giving you such a chance, and He may never give you another chance like you have right now. If you put it off, you will be playing "Russian Roulette" with your eternal soul using a six-shooter with six bullets - certainly a very foolish thing for you to do.

Therefore do it right now. Trust Jesus right now, right where you are. Do not put it off. Eternity is forever. You have no valid excuse to put off this decision. Trust Jesus before it is too late. If you put it off, you will almost certainly go to Hell when you die.

[You Must Decide Right Now]

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