Discovering God's Will Is Much Easier Than You Think!

What is a heart's cry of every serious Christian?

"Show me your will, Oh Lord!"

Discovering God's will for your life is much easier than you may think. Christian teachers have been making millions over the years teaching there are several secret keys to learning and performing God's will. How can I hear God's voice? This job or that job? Marry this woman or that woman? Buy this house or that house? Choose this church or that church? Decisions. Decisions. What does God want?

All that's needed is to ask ourselves one question:

What is it we are doing right now?

Whatever we are doing right now is God's will for our lives. Everything in our lives and in the lives of everyone in the world is God's perfect will for us and them.

There is no such thing as "God's Permissive Will!"

God's will is nothing that has to be discovered. "Oh look how obedient and sensitive he is. He really can hear God. I wish I could hear God like that. Then I could know God's will."

God's will is something that is being accomplished throughout His whole creation, every second of every day. Some (actually Many) may object and say, "This sound like you are making us into robots or puppets." Why is having free will so important to so many people? What is it that they want to be free to do? They want to be free to disobey God. That's the bottom line. They want the choice to obey or not to obey. Why in heaven's name do we want a choice like that? Will we have that choice in heaven? No. There will be no sin. There will be no disobedience. God can and will take away all possibility of sin and we will not be robots. We will be humans with a new nature.

Even the most horrific sin is God's perfect will.

What is the most horrific sin? No, the most horrific sin is not rape. It is not murder. It is not child abuse. All of these pale in comparison to this sin. Here is the most horrific sin:

The crucifixion of God's one and only Son.

God is using that horrible sin and blessing us and glorifying Himself. So it will be with every evil and sin that has ever been done. Their darkness will make God's light shine even brighter. Just one second in His presence and all pain will be forgotten.

For out of him and through him and to him are all things. (Romans 11:36 )

For out of him are all things: there is nothing that did not come from God.

and through him are all things: God is working through everything there is

and to him are all things: everything will one day return to the Father.

Let us cease our striving. God cannot be any more pleased than He already is with you. No matter what great work you do, he cannot be any more impressed. No matter what evil you do, his delight in you will not be decreased.

Rest in this. You are his will.

Beginning at the Beginning

A very controversial topic is found in the second verse of Genesis. A literal translation is, “the earth, she became chaos and vacancy”. This has been argued for centuries and again we don’t want to get bogged down. But let’s take a minute and look at the translation of the Hebrew word Hayah. The controversy is caused by the fact that this word can be translated both as “became” or “was”. So was the earth created without form and void. Or did it become formless and void. Of course the implications are that if it became void, then it was in another state before. What was that state? How long was it in that state? Was there another long lasting creation we aren’t really aware of? This is called the “gap theory” because there was a large gap in time between the first and second verse of Genesis. Again we cannot know for sure and it is not the purpose of this study, but it is interesting to study and look into.

There is so much we could go into. Literalness of the days. Allegorical teachings regarding darkness and light and the different days of Creation. But it’s time to move on.

Genesis - Chapter 2:
In verse 2, in the King James translation we have our first anthromorphism. Anthromorphism is placing the limited characteristics of man onto God. The KJV says that God rested. God doesn’t rest. The Concordant Literal Version translates this correctly, saying that God ceased. The eternal realm simply IS. There is no passage of time. No past, present, or future. Not even any ceasing. Just Being. This is based on God’s name as He revealed it to Moses: “I AM THAT I AM”. In the second person when addressing God we can call Him, “YOU ARE THAT YOU ARE”. In the third person when we are talking about God to someone else, we can say that “HE IS THAT HE IS”.

Hey, we all have to think about something. Let’s think deeply and meditate on this: The past and the future are just as tangible, just as real to God, as the present is to us. The past IS. The future IS.

To infer in any way that the future is changeable based upon our actions is impossible. IT IS! Does this make you feel like a puppet on a string? Does it make you think, "What is the purpose of my existence if the future is already set?" What do these two questions indicate? I believe they point to your "self". It is thinking that freedom has to include the ability to be independent from God and having the ability to choose to act contrary to God's will. Are you going to be able to choose to be independent and to act contrary to God's will in heaven? I hope you say no. No impure thing will enter heaven. So, your freedom to sin is taken from you when you enter heaven. Does that mean you are a puppet on a string? No. It simply means God's perfect will is being done in heaven.

What is the desire of every serious Christian? To know and do God's will. He has already granted that prayer to those with eyes to see (He gives those too). You are doing God's perfect will right now. Are you confused? That's His will. Have you just met your future wife? That's His will. Have you just suffered a serious evil in your life? That's His will. Terriost attacks are His will. The death of children is his will. The greatest evil the world has ever seen was His will: The suffering and crucifixion of His Beloved Son. All these others pale in comparision to the death of His innocent and perfect Son. And Isaiah 53 tells us that this pleased God. One of the most important reasons for our time on earth is for God to create an eternal contrast. We need the dark for the light to shine bright. One second in God's presence and it will all fall into place. He will be so wonderful and bright. Sin will be so awful and dark. We will be changed so that temptation will not even be possible. Even considering the most minor sin will be repulsive, not tempting for all eternity.