God’s Will
God’s Will
Read Romans 9
Now, can our pea brains understand how these two (sovereignty and free will) work together? No. God’s ways are not our ways. So much of our faith is that way. Jesus is both fully God and human. Do I understand that? No, but it is true. There is one God, but He is triune: three persons – Father, Son and Spirit. Do I understand this? No, but it is how God has revealed Himself. The Bible is God’s word but it was written by humans. How does God do that? He is God. He can do what I can’t fully understand. That is the way I understand God’s Sovereignty and our free will. Both exist at the same time.” – Pastor Tony Walliser
Off and on over the past few years, I’ve been doing some thinking… thinking about “God’s Will” for my life.
I know, I know… that’s some deep thinking. Yet, I have been doing it anyway.
As I started searching God’s Word, I found numerous things that should be construed as God’s Will for our lives. So, I narrowed them down to 10.
Now, there is no formula for knowing God’s Will. It is not a feeling. In fact, I don’t believe that God can be confined to a formula or to a feeling any more than He can be confined to a box or a pocket.
In my mind it’s more relational than anything. It’s about a relationship with Jesus Christ. It’s about striving to know Him more… striving to become more and more like Him. The more I seek after Him and become like Him – the more I will know how He thinks… know His desires… know His will.
God’s Will for Our Lives
- To love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength
- To love your neighbor as yourself
- To flee evil
- To be joyful and give thanks in all circumstances
- To praise Him and worship Him
- To dwell on all that is good and pure and true
- To go therefore and make disciples
- To daily put on the full armor of God
- To daily take up your cross and follow Him
- To pray continually
Now these 10 things may not specifically answer the “What does God want me to be when I grow up?” questions of life.
However, they will lead us to the throne… they will lead us to Him… they will guide us in our daily and life choice decision making… and will lead us to these next questions:
- Am I walking with God on a daily basis?
- Am I striving to be more like Christ?
- Am I pursuing the things of God?
- Am I in a place where I can be becoming who He has made me and called me to be?
God is sovereign and He gives us free will. Through both of these biblical facts, He has a will for our lives.
If we seek Him, we will find Him.
What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal. Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.
– Romans 9:30-32 NIV