Turning Faith Into Action

I've spent the last 2 days re-reading some good Christian books out of desperation:
-Lewis Smedes' Decision Making in a Complex World
-Os Hillman's The Purposes of Money
-Robert Katz' Biblical Paths to Financial Freedom

2 ideas stand out:

a) LS's suggestion that if there's nothing morally contentious about your intended decision, then a good guide is to CHOOSE RESPONSIBLY.

I have been pondering the meaning of this in the light of our decision to migrate/or not.
Are we being irresponsible by moving without the safety net of a job, or is that line of thinking the product of our sheltered environment and the risk-averse society we live in?

b) Again from LS: Even a wrong choice or bad decision cannot cut us off from God's love, or make Him love us any less than He already does.
That is such a wonderfully comforting thought.

From OH, I'm relearning what it means to seek the Lord and wait upon Him. I am very bad at waiting - I get impatient, I mentally stamp my feet, I want to know NOW whether the answer is Yes, No or Maybe. But if I'm to let God be God, how can I restrict Him with my notions of time and space and logic? He is God.

Interestingly, just this morning, I received a flurry of emails from close friends who know about our Melb dilemma. A dear friend asked hubby to send her his CV as an opening has just come up in Sydney in her company. Hubby turned down the opport and explained that Sydney's not part of our plan.

Another friend, who was the first to know we'd gotten our PR 3 years ago, fired off a series of responses after I'd emailed him this morning - and went a step further. He called - long distance from his office in Mornington! -and basically gave me an earful about waiting so long to decide.
"Indecision is not making a decision."
"If you're moving, better to do it sooner rather than later."

And suggested I rethink Hoppers Crossing/Werribee and consider Newport/Williamstown as our home base. He thinks W is too rednecky (he is, by his own admission, a snob :-)). He approved the choice of W Mercy Hosp tho'.

He ended the conversation with "God's already given you a visa - what more do you want?"
Which was a jaw-dropping, why-didn't-i-see-it revelation. Indeed, short of God telling us specifically Yes or No, how would we know what His will is unless we put it to the test, as it were, by taking one step in faith at a time?

Indecision has always been my greatest failing, and now a dear brother has pointed it out in the most direct way possible.

So - I've made an appointment with a business associate who's a mover specialising in relocations - he's coming by this Sat morning to discuss the details.

And I've just texted another associate who's a lawyer, to execute a Power of Attorney in respect of our HDB flat, so that my bro-in-law can help us rent it out, collect the rentals etc.

We're really winging it by faith, cos I still haven't all the answers to what happens if we don't make our next 10% instalment on our Melb investment property or if the banks turn down our loan application.