Decisiveness: Good and Bad

Now Samuel died. And all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah.
Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. And there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel. Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved; he was a Calebite. David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. So David sent ten young men. And David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal and greet him in my name. And thus you shall greet him: ‘Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have. I hear that you have shearers. Now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing all the time they were in Carmel. Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on a feast day. Please give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.’”
When David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal in the name of David, and then they waited. And Nabal answered David's servants, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants these days who are breaking away from their masters. Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers and give it to men who come from I do not know where?” So David's young men turned away and came back and told him all this. And David said to his men, “Every man strap on his sword!” And every man of them strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. And about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.
(1 Samuel 25:1-13 ESV)
Decisiveness: a good characteristic of leaders. I tend to be bad at it. Don't take me shoe shopping or expect any other kind of quick responses.  Some people are good at it.  Not Nabal. He made a snap decision to ignore David and his request. Culturally speaking, David's request was proper and timely.  Whereas many bands of men would go around snatching a sheep or two for survival, David's men, because he himself was a shepherd, had a heart to protect the sheep and their guardians.  The celebration of sheering was an appropriate time to step back and be thankful for the "harvest" of wool. Why not give David the party leftovers?  But Nabal, like Saul, reacted true to form, being ungrateful, rude and repulsive. David himself gets caught up in this reactionary pride. These men are being decisive alright. But reactions can reject reasoning and righteousness. Is there any hope for "decisive" men like this?  Let's wait and see. (Yes, let's put off that decision and appear indecisive.) And let's do some self-examination about how we have decided to react these past few days...