God's Will For My Life

Good Morning!! "God's will for my life",...how often have we pondered this notion? Studied it? Read book after book about it? And we all know people who seem to torture themselves trying to find it. Well, here in todays' scripture, we have an obvious chunk of it,...even compact and useful just as we like things to be, tucked away at the close of Paul's first letter to the church at Thessalonica. "This is God's will for you...," Yes, it says just that.

Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.—1 Thessalonians 5: 16-18 (NIV)

It's pretty,...almost poetic,...but is it deep enough? Now let's go Old Testament. Micah 6:8 says, "He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" It's still simple, still bunched in a group of three, still indicating that there's no big mystery, far out there, which must be solved before we know how to act or decide,...or how God wants us to act or decide. So why do we keep looking for more?

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting.
It has been found difficult and left untried."
(G.K. Chesterton)



No, God's will for my life isn't difficult to know. It's just frustratingly hard to do if self is at the center. And that's the crux of the very question itself, "What is God's will for MY life?"
Maybe when we get out of the way,...we will see better.

"Pray changes things, prayer changes people, and prayer changes marriages.
So don't limit your prayers to meals or to bedtime."