Find God’s Will For Your Life

“But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” (Proverbs 4:18)

Here Are A Few Simple Steps Towards Knowing God’s Will:

• Do what you know. You’ll never know the will of God until you do the will of God. Is my life in line with God’s Word? Most of the decisions that I need to make are already made for me directly in Scripture. “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.” (James 4:17) I can’t ask God to give me more light if I don’t use the light that I have already been given. Am I the husband, wife, father, mother, child, a church member I am suppose to be? Do what you know.
• Think! Our life’s destination is composed mostly of small decisions. Many times we make commitments and life altering choices without even stopping to consider them. God made us thinking beings. He guides our minds. God helps us think things out in prayer.          “Why is he/she making such a big deal of that?” This thought has gone through the minds of kids towards their parents and of church attenders towards their preachers. Parents and preachers make a big deal about bad little decisions because they know that they can add up to a big mess, and neither parents nor preachers like cleaning up big messes.
• Think of the long-term consequences of what you are doing. As someone wisely said, “we overestimate our year, and underestimate our ten year.” If I add __________ to my life or take away ________ from my life, what will it look like in ten or twenty years from now?
• Take advice. The Scripture is emphatic that we do this. “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.” (Proverbs 12:15) There is always someone who knows the Bible, knows human nature, and knows us better than we do. Ask them.
• Hold yourself suspect. Our heart is “deceitful above all things!” (Jeremiah 17:9). We might be making a decision because of our ego, our pride, or our feelings. We must judge our inward promptings strongly! How often have we seen someone who enters marriage based on a feeling alone? O. R. Barclay in his book Guidance said, “The joy and general sense of well-being that often (but not always) goes with being ‘in love’ can easily silence conscience and inhibit critical thinking. How often people say that they ‘feel led’ to get married (and probably they will say ‘the Lord has so clearly guided’), when all they are really describing is a particularly novel state of endocrine balance which makes them feel extremely sanguine and happy.”
• Be willing to wait. “Wait on the Lord” is one of the constant instructions of Scripture. We are to wait in suspended service. Are you giving 100% at what you are currently doing? Be diligent in what your doing until further orders. Psalms 37:23 says, “The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD:” “And the stops too!” George Mueller, the great prayer warrior of the 1800’s, wrote in the margin of his Bible. When in doubt, do nothing, but continue to wait on God.