Finding God’s Will (3)
Writing His-Story : Finding God’s Will (3)
Finding God’s Will is undoubtedly very crucial for our
personal relationship with God. The more we know Him,
the clearer we’re able see our life’s path. On the
other hand, the more we know His Will, the closer we
will get to Him. But ironically, the personal nature
of the process of finding God’s will could sometimes
become a hindrance to understand what God really
desires us to do. We become "too personal" and think
that the story is just about us.
The center of our faith is the Cross. Any sound
theologies should reflect why God left His divine
nature to become a limited nature and even died in a
such a horrible way, carrying our sins. Walsh and
Middleton says, "Any world view built on the Bible
must focus on Christ’s incarnation - his life, death
and ressurection" (The Transforming Vision, p. 74).
Thus, any paths that we choose should bring us to be
more like Christ (Rm 8:20; Heb 2:10-11). Living, and
thinking like Christ should be the only thing that
matters for us.
Unfortunatelly, we tend to forget that to live is
Christ when we’re in searching of God’s will. We think
that our life is our story and God is merely the
"great counselor" to help us write the right story.
Indeed, He is our counselor, but don’t forget that He
also owns us (I Cor 6:19-20; Gal 2:19-20). In simple
words, when making any decisions, we should always
remember that we simply write His story in our live.
Our story is part of God’s big story, the
meta-narrative.
The discussion brings to my point that to find God’s
will, regardless of how personal the decision we need
to make, we have to be able to set aside our personal
feeling and preference. I strongly believe that it
doesn’t mattter where we want to live, what kind of
jobs we want to do, what type of boys/girls we want to
marry, what academic majors we want to take, and any
other kind of decisions, God’s big story is more
important. The problem is that we can’t always see the
bigger picture that God has for us. That’s where faith
comes to play. We have to believe!
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace.
It is so sure and certain that a man could stake his
life on it a thousand times (Martin Luther)
In conclusion, I would like to urge us to really
contemplate any decisions we are about to make. Are we
making decisions just for our own sake, or God’s sake?
Don’t be afraid to make "unpopular decisions" if
that’s necessary, believe that He will perfect His
plan for us, because above all our life is His-Story
(yhs).
