Deciding

  

No group of people is more interested in doing the will of God than students at a Bible College.  These are young adults who are serious about serving the Lord.  Many of them will end up as teachers in Christian schools, missionaries, pastors, or involved in other forms of vocational Christian work.  They are the John and Betty Stams, the Jim Eliots, and Rev. & Mrs. Pastor down the road who quietly love people to Jesus.  When one announces in such a hothouse for Christian service that he is going to talk about "knowing the will of God," he has instant attention.
It was in that kind of setting that a friend of mine stood up some years ago and said.  "You can be absolutely sure what God's will for your life is"--at this point I can't remember if he said it or not, either way it hung in the air--who you should marry, where you should serve, exactly what kind of career you should pursue--then there was a pregnant pause, very pregnant.  Finally he gave the rest of his statement:  ". . . after the fact."
Among those who care, and I'm very, very glad they care, about doing what God wants them to do there is often a great deal of hand-wringing.
"What if I get it wrong?"
"Maybe I missed a turn back there, and now I'm no longer on the path of God's blessing."
It's ironic.  Here are people who care deeply about having God's blessing in their lives, yet they fail to experience it because they are all worried about having God's blessing in their life.
There is not much I can tell you about the specifics of God's will for your life.  I can tell you this:
It 's not a matter of figuring out some obscure clues.  I don't think God intends us to be all bothered, wondering if we've gotten it right.  Rather He wants us to be very un-bothered, knowing there is no doubt He has it right.

We'll be saying more Sunday--Making Up Your Mind About Making Up Your Mind.

 

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