The Hardest Will to Find
I have been doing some exploring recently in an effort to understand more this business of finding, knowing and doing God's will. Here is a lesson that God seems to be teaching me.
The real struggle in finding is probably not to find God's will. The truth is that God's will is usually clearer and nearer than we could imagine. It is also more than likely true that God's will may not be a minutely defined as we suppose.
What I am discovering is that the struggle is nailing down what the will of man is in truth. What we tend to do is to keep searching around for something called "God's will" that in fact is our will with a new name. How much sense would it make, either by logic or by faith, for God to so mask His will that we would spend endless days trying to "find" it?
The Biblical model seems to be more God screaming out at us, "Hey, here is my will, come and do it" He doesn't seem to be all that specific in the Bible either about details. It seems He is more into pointing in directions and aligning focus. The quest for the finest details appears to me to be more my trying to manipulate the renaming of my wants and wishes to God's will. Once I can rename it, I am now free to move forward. Problem is, it is still just my wants and wishes renamed.
Perhaps a simple solution is to go back to what we can see very clearly in the scripture and do everything that He has made clear until He tells us something differently. I suspect that I may have heard a distant voice say to me," Why should I take seriously your quest to know whether to stand on the left side of the pulpit with a green tie and 29 tulips in a brass flower vase in the very center of the communion table, when all the stuff I have written clearly is left unobeyed?"
The journey to know God's will, in my opinion, must first stop at the altar where my will gets fully dealt with. It seems to get much easier and clearer from there.
The real struggle in finding is probably not to find God's will. The truth is that God's will is usually clearer and nearer than we could imagine. It is also more than likely true that God's will may not be a minutely defined as we suppose.
What I am discovering is that the struggle is nailing down what the will of man is in truth. What we tend to do is to keep searching around for something called "God's will" that in fact is our will with a new name. How much sense would it make, either by logic or by faith, for God to so mask His will that we would spend endless days trying to "find" it?
The Biblical model seems to be more God screaming out at us, "Hey, here is my will, come and do it" He doesn't seem to be all that specific in the Bible either about details. It seems He is more into pointing in directions and aligning focus. The quest for the finest details appears to me to be more my trying to manipulate the renaming of my wants and wishes to God's will. Once I can rename it, I am now free to move forward. Problem is, it is still just my wants and wishes renamed.
Perhaps a simple solution is to go back to what we can see very clearly in the scripture and do everything that He has made clear until He tells us something differently. I suspect that I may have heard a distant voice say to me," Why should I take seriously your quest to know whether to stand on the left side of the pulpit with a green tie and 29 tulips in a brass flower vase in the very center of the communion table, when all the stuff I have written clearly is left unobeyed?"
The journey to know God's will, in my opinion, must first stop at the altar where my will gets fully dealt with. It seems to get much easier and clearer from there.
posted by Phil | 10:40 AM
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