Knowing God’s Will


I have heard/read some say that God’s will will be done and that we have to accept that, regardless of what His will is. I do not believe this to be entirely true.

If we accept whatever circumstance happens to us as God’s will for our lives, then it must be God’s will for some people to be murdered, get in car wrecks or airplane crashes, and get cancer and die. If one follows this line of reasoning, then it must be God’s will for abortions to happen. We know that nothing could be further from the truth!!!

Simply because something happens does NOT mean that is God’s will. If God’s will is going to happen anyway, why did Jesus give us specific instructions to pray, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done…?”

God’s will does NOT automatically happen. It is fatalistic and borderline foolish to think or believe so. Sometimes, however, we do find ourselves in varying degrees of uncomfortable-ness. Sometimes God allows (not causes) unpleasant things in our lives to help us grow and mature in our walk. Sometimes we need to endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ (2 Tim 2:3). Other times we need to rise up in the authority God has given us and resist what the enemy in trying to put on us (James 4:7).

Our responsibility is to seek the face of our Father and find out what His will is in that particular circumstance.

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