I’m beginning a book on God’s will. Here are a few ideas I am thinking about today, and maybe they will be helpful to all those students who are taking the next step in their life journey.
- God’s will is not a mystery.
- We do not have to beg and plead with God to “reveal his will for our lives.”
- God is not withholding his will, waiting for us to pray fervently enough.
- We typically want God’s will more than we want a relationship with God.
- What people call the “individual will of God” may be non-existent.
- We ask God to reveal his will to avoid the pain of difficult decisions.
- We ask God to reveal his will instead of planning our lives.
- We seek a sign from God because that is easier than making a decision.
- We sometimes make decisions based on hunches or impressions that we attribute to God.
- Seeking a sign from God is the contemporary equivalent of ancient divination practices.
- We substitute divination for developing wisdom.
- We substitute divination for the leadership of the Holy Spirit.
- We fail to take into account spiritual gifts as clues to our life’s purpose.
- We fail to take into account our own desires as clues to our life’s purpose.
- In all these ways, we’ve allowed contemporary Christian culture to trump sound biblical thinking on an important subject.
Great words.
I realize I’m late to this train, but this and the following post are quite helpful and succinct. Thank you, Matt!