If you’re like any other Christian you have often wondered what God’s will is for your life. And if you’re like me you get frustrated just sitting around waiting for God to tell you what that will is. At the age of 23 the Lord reveled to me through a Bible study on the gifts what my calling was, my entire life I knew I was different and knew there was something more, but just didn’t know what that something was. When He told me it was like everything in my life and all the things I had been through finally made sense.
Last week I read a small book from the author John MacArthur called ‘Found: God’s Will.’ This book to say the least was a real eye opener for me and gave me new revelation on my relationship with God. In the book MacArthur outlines the different concerns and excuses people use when searching for their place in the grand scheme of things. He used some interesting analogy to explain: God the cosmic Easter bunny (stashed His will, like eggs, somewhere out of sight and sent us running through life trying to find it.)(Pg. 6) God’s will for your life is not like an Easter egg hunt, His will is plainly outlined in the Bible. His will is very explicit in Scripture.
Instead of waiting around for God to give you some divine revelation on what He wants you to do try instead to keep moving. It’s easier to steer something in motion than having to pick it up and get it started. If you’re living your life according to God’s precepts and trying honestly to glorify Him in all your ways He will lead and guide you through ideas. So if you have no clue on where to start think of something you would love to do and just do it, being a child of God and living the life your thoughts and ideas are most often inspired by God. You may start in one place and while on the move God steers you to another. Get into the mainstream of what God is doing and let Him lead you to that perfect will. (Pg. 58)
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. (Romans 12:2 NLT)
Success is discovering and doing God’s will.
Works Cited
MacArthur, John. Found: God's Will. Colorado Springs: SP Publications, Inc., 1973,1977.
