GOD'S WILL: God has a perfect plan for you

Voice of Eden (episode 178)

Thur. 18th June 2020

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_You also can do the will of God.

Key scripture: 

Romans 12:2 

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Dear friend,

You remember I told you that God's will and a man's will can become one, but this is only possible if a man builds a strong intimacy with the word of God. If a man's mind isn't renewed by the word, he cannot know God's will. If we don't know His will (instructive will) how then can we do the will? Man has an independent will and is free to choose whatever he wants, but we must understand that a man who has been redeemed by the blood of Christ Jesus must arrive at a point where he has to choose God's choices and not his. Choosing God's choice is first made possible if we know where God stands and what he has chosen to do. I told you some time ago, "God is not always speaking, but he is always working (John 5:17)." He is working out something no matter how blind we are to it. Therefore it is important we work with Him.

Immerse yourself in the written word of God. Saturate your mind with it and stay in the place of prayer. It is only by doing that we can accurately know the will of God and find the strength to choose his will always. 

Do not think it's easy to walk past your will, especially when you see sense in it and none in God's will. We all need strength to always choose God's choices.

For example, if you were badly abused as a child, and someone asks you, “Do you think that was the will of God?” you now have a way to make some biblical sense out of a seemingly senseless situation, and give an answer that doesn’t contradict the Bible. You may say, “No it was not God’s will; because he commands that humans not be abusive, but love each other. The abuse broke his commandment and therefore moved his heart with anger and grief (Mark 3:5). But, in another sense, yes, it was part of God’s will (his sovereign will), because there are a hundred ways he could have stopped it. But for reasons I don’t yet fully understand, he didn’t.”

And corresponding to these two wills (sovereign and instructive) are the two things you need in this situation: one is a God who is strong and sovereign enough to turn it for good; and the other is a God who is able to empathize with you. On the one hand, Christ is a sovereign High King, and nothing happens apart from his will (Matthew 28:18). On the other hand, Christ Jesus is a merciful High Priest and sympathizes with our weaknesses and pain (Hebrews 4:15). 

Romans 12:2 talks strictly about the instructive will of God. That’s the goal of this verse: not ferreting out the secret will of God that he plans to do, but discerning the revealed will of God that we ought to do.

Give yourself to this. Immerse yourself in the written word of God; saturate your mind with it. And pray that the Spirit of Christ would make you so new that the spillover would be good, acceptable, and perfect — the will of God.

_some resource from John Piper founder of desiringGod

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