Trial & Error: An Error Of Finding God’s Will (6)
Finding God’s Will is indeed a challenge that people
of God face relentlessly. Where we want to settle
down, what School we should attend, what business we
must work on, whom we will marry, how many children we
should have are only few common questions that we face
daily in our lives. There are many attempts to
discover the secret of finding God’s will. But all
comes down to a conclusion that rarely (not
impossible) does God provide His guidance that
directly addresses our questions. God knows that His
Word is adequate to lead our path (Psalm 119:105; II
Cor. 3:16-17). That’s all we have. General
direction! The issue raised is whether it means that
to find God’s Will we are ‘pushed’ to try and error
every decision. After all, who can really make a
decision in ‘darkness’ with full confidence? And if
we make mistake, won’t God take care of us anyhow?
Trial and Error becomes a common approach given the
nature of the matter. However, God never teaches us
to "try first" or "we’ll see’ type of attitude. His
desire is to reveal His heart to His beloved. The
pitfall is that many times we cannot distinguish the
difference between Trial & Error and Walking in Faith.
They both look the same, but the paradigm underlies
the matter is completely different.
Walking in Faith will never result an error. That’s
for sure. It leads us to the next step that God
desires. On the other hand, Trial & Error will cause
many problems along the way. It is merely based on
the most convenient path. It never knows what the
result might be. God never leaves us in total
darkness. He is the Light of the world. Thus, in
every decision that we make, if we don’t know what the
result should be, we are not walking in faith but just
trying a path.
The good news is if we are sincere, eventually we will
get to the destination because God is good. He is
always faithful even when we are not.
2 Timothy 2:13 "if we are faithless, He will remain
faithful, for he cannot disown Himself"
However, Trial & Error will cause many emotional
baggages, spiritual bruises, and sometimes even get
physical such as financial problem. It is very
destructive. It is the source of our misery. Consider
following rhetoric questions:
* How much money that will cost us if we change our
major, business so many times?
* How much time we waste before we ‘finally’ settled
down in the right place?
* How many emotional scars that reside in our heart
because of all the ‘fail relationships’ that we ‘try’
before we find the right one?
* How miserable it is to find out that we work on
something completely wrong?
* How sad it is if in the end of our life we find out
that our life is just nothing but a series of Trial &
Error?
Think it through, pray harder, fast, ask Godly
friends, consider our past mistakes (can be a
pattern), let Holy Spirit be the leader, and then take
the step of faith to live up to His call. Don’t just
try all convenient paths and at the end we regret
them. It’s not just wasting our precious time, it
hurts God, others, and ourselves. (yhs)
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God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future
events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them,
that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself
and a continued readiness for every event.
(Matthew Henry)
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