I share with you some laughable things most Christians often call the "will of God" but it is not. I call them laughable that you may see how unwise you've been in following after these "beggarly" ways.
Yes! It's normal that every serious minded Christian desires to know the "will of God" and to get the right step per time. But some in ignorance birthed by laziness have found themselves in these "pits" in the name of "will of God". Better put this title as, "what the will of God is not".
Frustration/Failure
Wow! Every New Testament saint of God must be careful about accepting their frustration as the leading of the Spirit. Now this is what I mean.Examples
A student for example chooses a course to study and an institution to make his dream come true. But as things turn unfortunate for him, the school he chose couldn't offer him an admission, and rather gave him an option of another course. He thought about this that "what if I don't get another admission elsewhere? I can't afford to wait for another year to re-apply. I better go accept this though it's not my dream course". In his first year, the course looked dull to him; and so it was the second year. But he got to the third year, he began to have a rethink, and suddenly began to see hope in the course. There's nothing bad about this, it's only wrong if he consequently comes up to say "surely, this course is the Lord's will".While I want to say it's not impossible for that to had been what God had planned for him, to which he was deaf, but we should not generalise that whatever a Christian tries to do and he fails, it must have been that he was going against the will of God. If my brother had studied hard, he would have gotten a result that no school will be able to deny him admission. If he had got excellent results, he would not have had to opt for that course in the first place. Then would we have said he was too successful for the will of God to overtake him?
Study and prepare hard. Pass excellently your exams. If after that, you could not enter for your desired course, then might you tell us God's hand is in. I use the word "might" because even that cannot be generalised.
Let's see another example.
A Christian is to embark on a journey where he certainly will be a blessing to lives. As he sets out to depart, there began a light shower. He therefore says in his heart "perhaps, God is using it to stop me from this journey. Maybe this voyage will be dangerous". Or maybe it's not rain, but something as trivial as having a deflated tyre and looking around for a nearby shop to pump it; and after two failed attempts, he concludes. "It seems God is not supporting this work of mine that's why I couldn't get my tyre pumped. If God had been with me, everything should have been smooth and cooperative. Surely, I've seen enough signs to tell me I shouldn't embark on this journey. Perhaps, there might be an accident if I insist on going. I better stay".The man has just yielded to the temptation to deny lives the blessing of that day. Sometimes we are in the will of God, but everything seems to grind to a halt. I've never seen that happen in the New Testament, where Paul (for example) would go out to preach and will look at the clouds and say, "yes Lord, I understand now, you are saying I shouldn't go, that some Jews are lying in wait for me now". Several times they will have challenges/delays going to the next town, but they never turn the blame on God. People who give excuses like this are just being lazy. Probably they never wanted to go or they had something in their mind they wanted to do, so they easily dance to the wrong tune and get themselves a spiritual terminology to cover their wrong. If you had a party where you are the host to whom everyone is coming to from different faraway places, and now you got a deflated tyre, would you be absent from the meeting because you saw the rain? Or if you were going to your workplace, and such "God's leading" comes, that God's leading must also have included another job for you. Don't you think so?
Come on! Be born again in your mindset. A Christian should not turn to an astrologer! Be led by the Spirit of God, not by circumstances.
He who is watching the wind will not get the seed planted, and he who is looking at the clouds will not get in the grain. (Ecclesiastes 11:4 BBE)
God's will is not automatically anything a Christian resorts to when he fails in a certain venture. Hey! We don't breed irresponsible people in the kingdom! We don't have any room for the lazy, who will play lightly with their life and absolve themselves of the blame for failure owing it to one mystical "hand of God".Note: yes it's true that sometimes a Christian's failure might be because he is not in the will of God: however, failures are not to overnight turn to a "will of God". In fact, the will of God is that you work hard with your own hands and be diligent. Irresponsibility is failing on our part and then throwing the blame on "fate" or on "that's how God predestined it". If God has planned it that way from the beginning, you should have known from the start; and not just suddenly "seeing" the failure as God's leading.
A slothful, careless man fails in business, fails in career, fails in everything, wretched and empty; then comes up to say "God must be calling me into full time ministry, that's why He is frustrating my ambition". No! Deal with your slothful attitude. Work hard first! If God will call you, why can't He' tell you in your prospering, non-careless state?
Dear saint, failure or frustration should not be interpreted as the voice of God. Even though it is possible that a man after several failures, in the same failure(s), sits and thinks, and finally searches out the purpose of God concerning his life, and becomes a new person; failure is not that purpose, but in his failure, (thank God) he has now been able to find out why and how he missed it.
Dear brethren, keep posted on this blog, as we are about to commence a teaching on how to know the will of God for one's life in any situation. Drop your email in the space below this post or at the side, and subscribe to receive updates from this blog whenever we have a new content. You're blessed as you stay diligent and committed in your daily endeavours.
