God's Will

I have spent much of my life pleading with God to show me "His perfect will" for me, to guide me on the path that He would have me take. The issue of direction has caused great, well-intentioned, turmoil in my heart.

And I've been wrong.

The question to ask is this: what is God's will for us? It is not a temporal situation, such as which college we attend or what house we live in. Does He care about those things? Of course. Does He have a course of action that He would like us to take? Probably so.

But what, then, is His ultimate purpose, His will that He is constantly working in us? It is that our lives may bring glory to Him. That's it.

So often we desperately seek His will in the temporal sense. Where do I send my kids to school? Where do  I go to school? What job do I take? What is my major? Etc, etc. But what we often fail to realize, what I have failed to realize, is that all of that simply doesn't matter. God cares about it, yes. He has a hand in it, yes. But it is not for us to strive to "discover God's will" for our lives. It's very plain in His word: seek Him. That's all I need. As long as my heart is serving God, as long as my soul is honoring Him, then I am walking in His will, regardless of what occupation I possess.

Matthew 6:32-34: ^"For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."