| Can We Really Know God's
Will? |
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Does God still speak to people today? Does He actually
have a master plan for your life and mine? If so, how
do we discover it? How can we know the will of God?
The answer to first question is yes. God still speaks
to people today. I have discovered certain principles
from the Scripture that, if applied, will better enable
you to hear and respond to the voice of God.
The good news is that God does not play hide-and-seek.
He wants you to hear His voice even more than you want
to hear it. But far too often, we may not like what God
is saying and, thus, we will be resistant to it.
So the goal is to discover the will of God for our lives
and then to walk in it. And here is something to consider:
God’s will is always better in the long run than
ours. I use the term “long run” for a reason,
because there are times when we have difficulty understanding
why God is doing certain things or why He is not doing
certain things. But keep in mind that God is always looking
out for your spiritual and eternal welfare, where we tend
to look out for our physical and immediate welfare. What
is good now is not necessarily good for eternity, and
what is difficult now may be the best thing for eternity.
We tend to look at things in the short-term: What will
benefit me now? What is easier for me now!
So if we want to know the will of God, then we must look
for it. And the best place to begin is in the pages of
Scripture. Today, God primarily speaks to us through His
Word. Therefore, the Bible is the bedrock of truth that
we must measure all other truth by.
Yet so many people today are not taking time for the
Word of God. Many people today are NOT acting and thinking
biblically. Instead, they are allowing this world to squeeze
them into its mold and are not looking at things in light
of what the Bible says. The only way we will be conversant
with the Scripture, however, is by spending time in it
in on a daily basis. Psalm 1 tells us that the blessed,
or happy, person meditates in God’s Word day and
night. This is something we all need to do in our lives.
And as we search the Word of God, He will speak to us.
When you read the Bible, you are disciplining and preparing
yourself to think and act biblically.
God has given us His Word, but we must look for His will.
As you apply the principles of Scripture to your life,
pray and ask the Lord to lead you. Nothing is too insignificant
or too minute to pray about. As the Jewish proverb says,……
it is better to ask the way ten times,………….
than to take the wrong road once.
Tim Carlisle
