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Originally Posted by Trapped
I've been reading some articles on the internet about "how do you know God's will for your life" or "how do you know what God wants". I am stuck in yet another different but no less stressful situation where I have a few murky and life-altering options but simply no idea what to do. I am almost writing off completely "asking the Lord" for His leading because it's been too many years of praying that prayer and receiving mausoleum silence in return.
But of course several of the articles I read do say things like, "read His word to find out what he wants".
Okay........unfortunately there is no "book of Trapped" in the Bible. I cannot open up to Trapped chapter 13 verse 5 to find out what God wants for Trapped. What does "seek His will in His word" actually mean, in the context of making your own life decisions that are not examples found in His word?
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Been there.
Me: “Is anybody out there...?”
Answer:
Me: “Hellllllooooo.....???”
Answer:
Me: “OK then. I need some help here...I don’t know what to do. If you’re talking to me, I can’t heeeeearrrrrr Yooooooouuuuuu.”
Answer:
Eventually:
Me: “OK. I did ask. I really want to do what you want me to do. I don’t know what to do, so I’ll just do what I think is right. I’ll do what I want to do and maybe that’s what you want. If not, remember Lord, I did ask...”
On and on. Year after year.
I remember reading someone’s comment along this line, it might have been OBW. He said something like: God has given us a free will to choose how to live our lives, make decisions, etc. He wants us to choose him.
That helped me. Looking back, I can see how true it is.
Is it about finding out what he wants us to do, or more about us living a godly life and choosing him in the small things? Is it about him giving us choices in big and small things...learning how important it is that he gave us freedom to choose. Every time we ask him what he wants us to do, we choose him.
The consequences of a free will...Hummm.
Looking back, I’m trying to remember decisions I’ve made when I was in a fog and looking for answers that, in my mind, never came. Today...I can’t remember a single one. At the time, answers...or lack of answers were consuming me. I wish I could tell you how I got from there to here. All I can say is that today, I just talk to him. I live my life and talk things over with him like he’s my best friend. I used to think he was like a puppet master...off somewhere making me dance on the end of strings. I now know that’s not who he is. Paul prayed “...that I may know him...”. Is this how we “get to know” him? Is this how we learn to “walk by faith”? I think maybe it is.
Maybe the Book of Yogi is pretty much right: When you come to a fork in the road...take it. (Sorry.)
Hope this helps...
Nell