One of the traditions of my family growing up was what happened on Easter Sunday morning. On Easter Sunday morning we’d get up early before church and go searching for easter eggs. Sometimes though, I think we feel the same way about finding the will of God in our lives. Except that the search for the will of God isn’t nearly as fun as searching for easter eggs. It’s frustrating to search for something that sometimes seems impossible to find. Most of us, around the age of high school or Jr. High, we were told we needed to start searching for God’s will in earnest. Because God’s will should determine all these decisions you have to make, like what career path’s you’d take or who we would marry or where we would live. And we’re told that God’s will for us is great, and it’s fulfilling, and it’s satisfying so we gotta find it! We gotta find it, we gotta search for it, we gotta figure it out, and then once we find it we gotta stay in it.
We’ve all heard cliches like, “God has a wonderful plan for your life,” “the safest place to be is in the center of God’s will,” “don’t do your will, do God’s will,” or if someone asks if you’re gonna have something like a job or children in the future and the response is “if God wills.” Have you heard those before? We hear of God’s will for our lives and it sounds so nice like a basket of easter eggs. We believe God has made this specific plan for our lives out of love for us. So we look forward to the day that we discover this plan design especially for us. But then we start trying to find it and it doesn’t seem easy at all. We think overtop God’s will is hidden from us. It seems mysterious or elusive, so we pray, asking God to reveal it to us. And we listen for God, we wait for Him to speak. We w...
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...me a missionary in some remote part of Africa. Or you might have to do something else that you find too difficult or demanding or boring or unpleasant. Or maybe, you’re afraid that you won’t get to live out your dreams. You’re happy living life the way you want to live it and you don’t want God to disrupt that. Completely different problem, but I believe that has the same root as the previous problem. And that root is confusion and frustration about the will of God. That’s the root, you don’t actually understand what God desires of you so the idea scares you.
Whatever side of the fence you’re on I’m gonna give you all some good news today, freeing news. But what I’m about to tell you is so unsettling to the unregenerate soul that you will get MAD. God’s will IS good, it IS perfect, it’s satisfying, and we can KNOW the will of God. BUT it may be very different from
P. 15 "God has his mysteries which none can fathom. You, perhaps, will be a king. You can do nothing about it. You, on the other hand, will be unlucky, but you can do nothing about that either. Each man finds his way already marked out for him and he can change nothing of it."
There is so much mystified confusion surrounding the will of God in today’s society. It is evident in the ways that people use the term that views about it differ widely; there is even contradiction in two things the same person might say. It is because of the recommendation of my pastor and others that I decided to read The Will of God, written by Leslie D. Weatherhead.
...God and our planned routes. It takes us the ability to ignore the threats tempting us to quit to live out a life devoted to God’s Divine Providence.
I grew up in a church congregation that taught of God’s vengeance and not of God’s love. I spent the majority of my pre-teen, teen and adult years in fear of God. In fear of what would happen when I sinned. And of course I did sin. Instead of asking God for forgiveness for what I deemed unforgivable sins, I figured in my own mind, that since I was going to Hell, I might as well continue to sin. Today, I will share with you my life choices, my life circumstances and the plan that God had all along for my life to serve him.
big picture of God's plan, we can better find some spiritual lessons of our own
Many people are confused when asked about fate and destiny. Through an extensive interview of five young adults, I was able to cover a basic understanding on this topic. Three of the subjects in question were generally unsure of how much free will is available, if choices are true or forced upon them by a higher power. The forth believed that destiny has no effect on life. To counteract this variance basic information was given.
Our intentions are there, but when we strive to survive, our plans and promises seem to disappear. I decided to go back to college recently, after much prayer and seeking God beforehand. As I really did not think I could succeed, because I was again thinking about the age factor. But then one day this past January, I entered a contest for a scholarship. I won a one thousand dollar scholarship towards tuition. I believed this was God ordained, kind of like a sign from God? Maybe?
“First, there is the call to be a Christian. Second, for each individual there is a specific call—a defining purpose or mission, a reason for being. Every individual is called of God to respond through service in the world. Third, there is the call that we face each day in response to the multiple demands on our lives—our immediate duties and responsibilities” (Smith, ...
Class notes. Man’s Desperate Need of Righteousness and God’s Glorious Provision of Righteousness. Faith Christian University. Orlando, Florida. August 2011.
Because you didn’t allow him to work in your life, you wanted to control it or compare it to another person’s life. You set your expectations on a level that was never for you. Who are you more trying to please, the world or God? Pleasing the world will lead to so many unfulfilled expectations and you won’t even realize that you are your own problem. Rather if it’s small or big, some people just have different needs for their lives, than what you need. Some people have different callings on them than you do. God has already said it, so be patience for his direction. Do what your heart desires you to do and do what makes you happy, (as long as it’s
Life is very much like driving. You are free to choose any one of the many options before you both now and in the future, but not every option will take you where God would want you to go.
I think that life can throw us some curve balls throughout our days on earth. I mean one day I was healthy as a horse and the next day I was told I had cancer. I was still happy every day that I wake up because that’s another day I get to live. When he says “Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the task which it constantly sets for each individual’, is in my belief that he is saying make something out of ourselves. This means a great deal to me because I want to be the first person to graduate college out of my two brothers.
Based on Horton’s (2009) article, I believe I fit into two approaches, which are the “Bull’s Eye Approach” and the “Relationship-Formation Approach” (Horton, 2009, pp. 8, 9, 11, 12). I follow the Bull’s Eye Approach because I trust that God permits believers to stray from His plan, but to a certain extent (Horton, 2009, p. 8). I also believe God has a detailed plan for all His followers. Our talents are given to us to bring glory to God and to expose the world to righteous living. However, I do not believe I aim to make decisions, which align with God’s plan for my life because it has yet to be
to do, we will never experience true joy and peace. Our calling is what God has planned
Easter is a religious holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after his death by crucifixion about 2,000 years ago. For Christians, Easter is a day of religious services and the gathering of family. In many churches Easter comes after a season of prayer, abstinence, and fasting called Lent. This is observed in memory of the 40 days' fast of Christ in the desert. In Eastern Orthodox churches Lent is 50 days. In Western Christen religions Lent is observed for six weeks and four days.