No doubt this is a huge topic of discussion among believers. Every believer wants to be in "God's perfect will." I cannot count to you the number of conversations about this topic I have had over the years. I can remember my junior and senior year in high school. There is no word for the amount of anxiety I had over finding and obeying "God's perfect will." One thing that God has shown me in the past month is that while there is value in the persistancy of prayer (what I mean is continuing to ask God over and over), he hears us the first time we pray for something. Prayers that you prayed when you were just a child, He STILL hears them because He is outside of space and time.
So..this thought came into my head this morning. God knows I have asked for his will on a range of circumstances as well as for my life at least hundreds of times..He heard me the first time. God's will shouldn't something that we fear missing and in turn messing up our whole lives. This morning I heard "My will is accomplished in the small steps of obedience." As crazy as it sounds, simply waking up and being Led by the Spirit to shop at Ingles that day is a small step of obedience that is contributing to you living out God's will. Let me explain.
Here's how this thing goes. I took a year off from school..felt an unction to return and made a choice where I felt like God was leading. While this looked stupid to the world because I have taken on a year longer before I can graduate..I have made some connections through some connections that are contributing to God's will for my life. It was the small steps: Step to go to school, step to invest in certain people, step to attend certain events, step to respond to God to pray...etc. The little steps are bringing about God's perfect Will and it's not something that is difficult and fearful, it is just Me living my everyday life.
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