“If I only knew the Will of God, I would do it!”
What a crazy statement to say. It’s true we all want to know what God wants us to do and how He would want us to live, but do we really want to know God’s Will completely?
If we understood God’s will completely we might:
Know the disasters were going to hit and we would try to move the people.
Know when stress would hit and we would not put ourselves in that situation.
Know when sickness or death comes and we would try to stop it.
While we might be able to prevent bad situations or at least be more prepared for it, we would never learn or grow into the people that God created us to be. If someone understood that they would get cancer and they were successful in altering their life so it did not happen, how could they then testify of complete healing God planned for them. If we knew a disaster would happen and could prevent it, how could we testify of God’s blessings and provision through our pain.
I am not saying that life’s pain is God’s will, nor am I saying that it is something to enjoy going through. I am merely praising God that He only reveals a little of His Will at a time, so that I can grow to be the disciple He wants me to be. I have learned more through life’s pain and disappointment then I could ever have learned in any school. I am a better Husband, Pastor and Man because I have experienced pain and grown from it. If I knew what God’s Will was from the beginning I would not have always gone the long way around to get to it.
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” Romans 12:2
We must earnestly seek God’s Will if we ever hope to Impact the World, but stop asking God to lay it all out for you. Focus on what you Know and Earnestly Seek to understand it more fully, but remember that sometimes God won’t reveal what’s coming around the corner because He is stretching you to GROW!
Have you ever thought that we wouldn’t understand fully if we knew God’s complete Will for our lives & would in turn not do it!
I daresay we DO know God’s will. Maybe not his specific will in specific situations, like “should I take job A or job B,” but in all situations, He tells us to “Go out and make disciples.” When in doubt, we can always follow His guidance as given in the New Testament. There is more specific advice there in Matthew Chapter 5 than any of us could achieve in a lifetime! We worry too much about specific guidance in details and we miss the big picture of what he wants us to do. Sometimes He gives us choices and lets us pick, for example He may let us choose which of several homes we might choose to purchase within an area. But He always wants us to follow His commands and guidance as spelled out in the Bible — there is no fuzz on that.
Amen, I agree that we already know God’s primary Will for our life, which is to preach the Gospel, my point is exactly that, stop focusing on the little details that God might not reveal until we need to know and start focusing on what you Know and Earnestly Seek to understand it more fully, but remember that sometimes God won’t reveal what’s coming around the corner because He is stretching you to GROW! Yes it’s important to seek God on who we should marry and where we should live, but we need to stop begging God to lay it all out for us!