Finding God’s Will For Our Life

WHY IS IT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT WE CAN DO IN THIS LIFE?

Two reasons, we need to know and do God’s will…

(1) For God’s sake.

That is God created each and everyone of us for a purpose. And when we stand before Him on the judgment day we will give account of our lives if we did or did not do what God created us to do.

NOTHING COULD BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THAT…NOTHING!!!

However, we live in a society today where a lot of people do not think that is important.

But when they stand before their CREATOR that created them for a specific purpose it will be the only thing that is important to them.

All of a sudden:

• Sports

• Money

• Material things

• Hobbies

• Fishing

• Hunting

• Golfing

Will no longer be important to them!!!

But we should seek to do God’s will for our lives for another reason, we should seek to do God’s will for God’s sake but also for…

(2) OUR SAKE

Let me illustrate it this way…

Illus: Suppose we get tired of the high price of gas that we pay to fill our car gas tanks. We come up with this brilliant idea of cutting our gas bill in half by putting a half tank of gas and a half tank of water in our gas tank.

WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN?

We are going to have some serious car problems because our car designer designed our cars to run on gas alone.

And the same thing with us, God the Creator designed our life to function doing His will and if we do not do His will we are going to have some big problems.

The world we live in we find many are having some serious problems and it can all be trace back with people not living their life doing God’s will.

Again, if you believe in God the Creator it is critical for God sake and our sake that we find what God has created us for in this life.

HOW DO WE FIND GOD’S WILL FOR OUR LIFE?

I have noticed among Christians a lot of Christian in order to find God’s will they look for a sign from heaven.

That is, they will pray, “If it is God’s will for them to do something, let fire come down from heaven.”

The Bible tells us THE STEPS OF A GODLY MAN ARE ORDERED OF THE LORD.

• When we are trying to find direction many of turn to GPS and it directs which way to go.

• We also depends on road signs to direct us where we are going.

I came across some street signs the other day.

• One gas station has a restaurant actually had this on their changeable sign, “Eat here and get gas!”

• A dry cleaners had this sign, “Leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time!”

• Outside a resale shop, “We exchange ANYTHING, bicycles, washing machines. Why not bring your wife along and get a wonderful bargain!”

• A pet shop had this written on a sign, It said, “If youre looking for a pet Dog for sale, eats anything and is fond of children, come on inside!”

• And finally, this one for a funeral parlor that said, “Come in and ask about our lay away plan.”

Yes, when we want to go somewhere we depend on GPS and ROAD SIGNS to get us there!

In this spiritual journey that we are on God wants us to know His will, such as…

• WHOM SHOULD I MARRY?

• SHOULD I QUIT THIS JOB AND TAKE THE OTHER JOB?

• DOES GOD WANT US TO START A FAMILY NOW, OR SHOULD WE WAIT?

• WHAT COLLEGE SHOULD I GO TO?

• WHAT DEGREE SHOULD I PURSUE?

• WHAT CHURCH SHOULD I JOIN?

The decisions we make for these and many others will make a huge difference in our lives.

That is, we can not leave these decisions to chance, or guess work.

God created you for a purpose and He wants you to know what that purpose is!!!

If God wants us to DO His will, why wouldn’t He want us to know His will?

Just as the Lord Jesus was assigned a specific task to perform on earth, each Christian is assigned special tasks which we must perform.

The Lord Jesus was placed here on the earth to die for the sins of mankind. When the Lord Jesus was facing death on the cross, listen to this prayer He prayed.

Matthew 26:36-42 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.