The Will Of God

The Will of God

By

Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.

OPENING: - There comes a point or there should come a point in every person’s spiritual walk and their ultimate relationship with God that they get tired of religion at least it has for me. Now that doesn’t mean we get tired of God or serving Him, it just means we can’t take religious church as usual anymore. I am talking about tired of the isms and schisms of the religious system, tired of the superficial fluff or propaganda and entertainment. Let me inject this here what I mean by religion is means man’s attempts, traditions, practices, ideas, customs, habits, and rituals used to so-call serve God and because of that I am all churched out .

I believe I can stand on the Word of God and say He is tired of it as well. Amos 5:21-24 says, “I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream”.

I feel the problem with church today is we have become so familiar with how to do church and how to excite people by looking a certain way, acting a certain way, sounding a certain way and being so seeker sensitive that we have become powerfully impotent. Sure, we have people who can memorize scripture, who can shout like no bodies business and there are those who can preach and have people sitting on the edge of their seats. We have access to the internet and can study on every topic the Bible has and therefore that has produced a fatal five-fold ministry of armchair apostles, pathetic prophets, empty evangelist, pitiful preachers, and treacherous teachers that believe they are experts on all things holy because they can memorize a scripture or two and do church they are nothing more than sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal because they do not understand the Will of God.

It should be the desire of every Christian – every Child of God to seek to understand the will of the God. Ephesians 5:17 says, “Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is”. But the questions are What is God’s will, and how can we go about understanding it? Is His will something hidden that we need to seek out, or is it something obvious? Can we miss out on God’s will, or can we somehow mess things up by making the wrong decisions?

So often we treat the will of God like some kind of good luck charm, lucky penny, or rabbits’ foot. We will say God if it is your will let me find the right spouse, let us get the right house, let me choose the right college and career path. Although we have been taught that and I have even done it myself that is not what the will of God for our lives is about. To truly be honest the college you chose, the house you buy, the spouse you marry are literally your free will choices. I believe the steps of the righteous man are ordered by the Lord and He will lead and guide you in a certain direction but the choice, the free will still lies within us.

I believe one problems is due to the multiple way in which the term “will” functions in biblical expressions. The Bible uses the expression “will of God” in various ways. We encounter two different Greek words in the New Testament boule and thelema, both of which are capable of several distinctions. They encompass such ideas as the counsel of God, the plan of God, the decrees of God, the disposition or attitude of God, as well as other distinctions. Further distinctions in historical theology add to the abundance of meanings attached to the statement “the will of God.”

Let’s look at scripture.

PRAYER: -

SCRIPTURE: - Ephesians 5:17 says, “Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is”.

Romans 12: 1 says, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”.

Psalm 143:10 says, “Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness”.