Finding God’s Will (5)
God or God’s Will?: Finding God’s Will (5)
Our desire and eagerness to find God’s best option in
our life sometimes can blind our spiritual eyes of why
we want to do His Will in the first place. We are busy
to search the "what is" question - the guidance,
and forget that after all the ultimate goal is to
please God by personally and intimately knowing Him.
Proverb 3:5-6 says "Trust in the LORD with all your
heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all
your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths
straight."
To trust somebody, we need to know him/her. Without
any knowledge of who he/she is, it is impossible to
know what he/she relly wants. In other words, we need
to have a solid relationship with God in order to know
what He really has in mind. When David was in the
midst of confusion of not knowing what to do, he cried
out to the Lord " My God, my God, why
have you forsaken me? …..and O my God, I cry out by
day, but you do not answer…." (Ps 22 :1-2).
Amazingly, he never lost his trust in God.
Ps 22:7-9 says "All who see me mock me; they hurl
insults, shaking their heads: "He trusts in the LORD;
let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he
delights in him." The NASB uses the word COMMIT
instead of TRUST. They both are rooted in the same
hebrew word that means to roll.
We need to roll or to give away ourself totally to God
in order to know what He wants. That what TRUST means.
In fact, the word WAIT in the hebrew means TO SERVE
(Jim Reeve, God Never Wastes a Hurt). We are not
sitting around and doing nothing when we wait on His
guidance or answer; instead, we need to serve Him with
all we have.
It does not matter what we say we believe, what we do
reveals what we believe. If we do really trust Him,
our behaviour will show how dependent we are on Him.
Thus, what important is to know Him where His heart
is. Bob Pierce, the founder of World Vision, once
prayed, "Let my heart be broken with the things that
break the heart of God" (Robert L, Empowering The
Poor). That’s what finding God’s will is all about, to
know His heart.
Therefore, I doubt that we are in His will, if we
don’t have the desire to COMMIT and to SERVE Him. If
our heart is not in His work, how can we seek for
another guidance? We don’t even want to do what we
know He really wants!
Craig Keener in His book Gift and Giver states, "The
foundation of knowing God, is not simply being able to
determine specific guidance from Him, important as
specific guidance is. Knowing God is more than simply
getting guidance for the details of our lives."
I would like to urge all of us to work more on our
relationship with God in every way. Let’s put aside
all barrier that can hinder our relationship with Him.
Remember What matter is God, not us. Let’s us be like
Paul that has all the desire to please Him in every
way.
"To advance the gospel has been Paul’s lifelong
passion; he has thus ordered his life so that nothing
will hinder, and everything advance, the message about
Christ" (Gordon Fee) (yhs)
