Targeting God's Will
Joey Rodgers
Romans 12:1-2
If you could ask God (1) question - what would you ask? Would you ask about eternity past? Creation? How He flung the stars in place? The cross? His return? Just what would you ask?
A USA Today survey asked - If you could ask God one question what would you ask? 80% of Americans surveyed said they'd want to know what God's will and purpose was for their life.
As a pastor this is the single most asked question I get. How can I know God's will for me? As I have sought to answer this question for others, I've come to realize that God's will is mysterious yet obvious - complex yet simple.
For most people, God's will is like a spiritual game of Pin-the-tail-on-the-Donkey. They feel like they've been blindfolded, spun in circles and left to find their own way in the pursuit of pinning their life precisely to His prefect plan.
For many years, this is the way I felt when I tried to decipher God's will for my life? I felt blindfolded trying to hit a moving target?
I felt like I was stammering in the dark trying to find a needle in a haystack - only to realize what I was really doing was projecting my ambitions on God expecting Him to join me in my life pursuits.
But God isn't our co-pilot or genie in a bottle. So while our human tendency might be to focus on our ambitions - on where we should go, how we should get there and what we should do once we've arrived - this doesn't appear to be God's concern. We might pursue life from point A to point B - but God is far more focused on the journey than the destination. He is much more engaged in WHO we are than in WHAT we do.
God's concern is the process He is taking us through to mature and ready us to make us more like His Son. Swindoll
Maybe this is why people say, ''It is easier to know God's will for my wife than it is for my life.''
For most people - God's will looks more like a chance game of darts. They'll say, ''God if I hit the bull's ey ...
Joey Rodgers
Romans 12:1-2
If you could ask God (1) question - what would you ask? Would you ask about eternity past? Creation? How He flung the stars in place? The cross? His return? Just what would you ask?
A USA Today survey asked - If you could ask God one question what would you ask? 80% of Americans surveyed said they'd want to know what God's will and purpose was for their life.
As a pastor this is the single most asked question I get. How can I know God's will for me? As I have sought to answer this question for others, I've come to realize that God's will is mysterious yet obvious - complex yet simple.
For most people, God's will is like a spiritual game of Pin-the-tail-on-the-Donkey. They feel like they've been blindfolded, spun in circles and left to find their own way in the pursuit of pinning their life precisely to His prefect plan.
For many years, this is the way I felt when I tried to decipher God's will for my life? I felt blindfolded trying to hit a moving target?
I felt like I was stammering in the dark trying to find a needle in a haystack - only to realize what I was really doing was projecting my ambitions on God expecting Him to join me in my life pursuits.
But God isn't our co-pilot or genie in a bottle. So while our human tendency might be to focus on our ambitions - on where we should go, how we should get there and what we should do once we've arrived - this doesn't appear to be God's concern. We might pursue life from point A to point B - but God is far more focused on the journey than the destination. He is much more engaged in WHO we are than in WHAT we do.
God's concern is the process He is taking us through to mature and ready us to make us more like His Son. Swindoll
Maybe this is why people say, ''It is easier to know God's will for my wife than it is for my life.''
For most people - God's will looks more like a chance game of darts. They'll say, ''God if I hit the bull's ey ...
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