How do you know the Lord's leading?

[aron]

"Give me understanding that I may live" ~Psa 119:144(b)

We're nothing if not rational creatures, so asking what God wants may be aided by knowing what God doesn't want. We fumble our way toward the goal, as it were. There's the story of Edison as he pursued his dream of incandescent light, and someone asked if he were discouraged at not finding the right filament. Supposedly he answered that he was encouraged because now he knew 2,000 filaments that didnt work effectively. He was closer to the goal.

The Lord's Recovery aka Local Church (LC) was a system designed to benefit one man and his immediate family, and it usually rewarded those who built up the system. In this it was little different from any other multi-level marketing system like Shaklee or Amway.

Now some may dismiss religion itself on similar grounds, but I prefer a universe in which God exists, as it seems just a bit less cold and empty than one without. Okay, so assuming that "God, having spoken to us in the prophets, now has spoken to us in the Son" - now what? How to know God's will?

That question is actually harder than it looks, since we are darkened creatures, far removed from God. Again, the LC is Exhibit A. Full of appearances and efforts to prop up appearances but little if any substance.

At present, I'll just say that reality for me is found in seeing the Son finding reality in His Father's word. "I (Christ) come to do Your will, O God (Father)/Behold, in the scroll of the book it is written concerning me". Jesus was a man entirely pinioned by the word. He was absolutely its captive. The Father had spoken - "it is written" - and as its unquestioned slave he was free from Satan to serve God. Thus all the great works, or signs. Everything was fore-ordained. But it was his faith that made the possible inevitable.