Finding God's Will

Many of us spend a great deal of our time looking for God’s will for our lives.  Maybe you are asking Him to reveal His will to you right now.  That may even be why you clicked on this blog in the first place, hoping that He would provide you with some answers.  And we need answers, because we spend a lot of our lives asking Him really good questions.

As students we ask “should I date?  And if I date, who should it be?”

When we become seniors we ask “should I go to college?  And if I go to college, where should I go?  And if I don’t go to college, where should I work?”

As college students we ask “what should I major in?  And if I pick a major, does that mean I have to study?”

As young adults we ask “should I get married?  And if I get married, who should I marry?”

As we get older we ask “which job should I take?  Should I move to Toledo?  Should I live across the street from my parents for the rest of my life?”

These are all good questions, and as we ask God these questions we are praying that He would reveal His will.  But what if He already revealed His will for our lives?  What if we didn’t have to ask those kinds of questions because we had already been given all the important answers? 

God’s Word contains His ultimate will for our lives: His glorification.  He wants us to make worship happen by worshipping at church and at school and at work and with friends.  We are to make everything about Him.  We should also make worship happen by finding people we know that don’t worship God and telling them how they can have a relationship with Him through Jesus and thus allowing another person to fulfill God’s will in their lives by worshipping Him.

Outside of this ultimate will of glorification, the rest is just details.  These decisions that seem so big are really just small elements next to God’s true will for our lives.  God doesn’t really give us too many specifics to the questions above because He doesn’t want us to “find” His will He wants us to “do” His will.  He wants us to live by the things He has already told us in His Word.  His will is not hidden that we would find it, it has already been revealed and He is waiting for us to do it.  All the rest, all the things we become so obsessive over, are really just details distracting us from His good and perfect will.