The will of God for your life: the way I see it.

 

                                26th October 2020

The will of God for your life: the way I see it.

Since the fall happened, there’s nothing perfect on earth! It would seem like even God’s will for you is unclear. As you would take different turns. It might become subjective. It may depend on you exercising your own free will to accept His will and it’s also limited by your own understanding of it.

God’s love for us is perfect so He will walk along with us through the paths we take once we have exercised our will and told him we believe in Him and want to walk through on in the journey through this world by faith in Him.

Our journey may take different turns, it might be like a trek down narrow and difficult paths. You might climb steep mountains and pick your way slowly across rough terrains. You might find yourself alone in a desert with no comfort, thirsty and hungry with no one to reach out to. Sometimes, you may have slipped into a pit! Or maybe you’ve found yourself shipwrecked in the lonely seas, marooned in the open waters.

All these events may have been part of this journey you are in.

What you do with each experience is what is important. How you react to it, the attitude you have as you face each situation. That’s what counts.

You desired to walk in the path that He directs you to walk on.

                                       Therefore,

You decide to stand up each time you are struck down.

You don’t quit when all you felt like was to give up!

When things seem tough, you persevere to overcome them.

You do what it takes against all odds.

And in spite of pain and misunderstandings, you cling to hope. Continue in faith.

You allow kindness, empathy, understanding to colour your life

Sometimes your will and His will clashed. Then you decided to take a detour and ended up in the stomach of a whale!

You also found yourself stuck behind bars not because you were not walking on the right path but because someone interfered. You understood that not all people have your life and plans in their view, for the good of you. They may make their own selfish plans to oppose, disrupt and take away the opportunities that should have been yours. You make a note of it and think this is the way of the world.

You suffer those consequences and you rise up wiser, stronger and more determined to walk, run, swim or fly! To do whatever it takes as these are temporary interruptions to life.

The journey goes on. There’s still more to go. You will make it with the same resilience and courage that saw you through darker times.

You will chin up and carry on with your eyes focused on your source, the creator of the universe who showed you He loved you. He walked with you and sometimes carried you.

You bank on His love, compassion, grace and mercy. You don’t forget His goodness in spite of the hard journey.

Angie E. Seneviratne Based on Proverbs 3:5-6. And many examples of the many Biblical characters.

posted Friday, 30 October 2020