1/15/2020 - The will of God

Blessing #1: We can conform our beliefs to the teaching of Scripture. Since there are no Bible passages that connect the phrase “the will of God” to personal life decisions, we won’t make decisions as if there were. There are no Bible passages that connect the matter of God’s will directly to where to go to college, what spouse to choose, what job to take, what house to buy, what vacation to go on, or even the number of children to have. In fact, there are no Bible passages that teach or encourage us to discover God’ will at all! Every time the phrase “the will of God” or “God’s will” is used in Scripture, the passages are talking about either the sovereign will of God or the behavioral guidelines of God’s Word that are incumbent upon every Christ-follower. Do you want to be blessed and have a successful life? Do you want to be prosperous in the biblical sense of the word? Conform your thinking and acting and believing to what God’s Word actually says. James tells it to us straight: “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves” (James 1:22). We have plenty of God’s Word to keep us busy every day of our lives.