Tuesday, February 28, 2012

One of the Best Ever - "His Will Isn't the Point"

I may have posted this before but I was reflecting on it again afresh today and thought readers of this blog might enjoy it. It stand as one of the best blogs I have ever read. It is from Steven Furtick.


Posted: 23 Feb 2012 03:15 AM PST
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter.
Proverbs 25:2
There’s a reason God’s will in specific situations is so difficult to know sometimes. There’s a reason that not everything is black and white. It can be difficult to discern God’s will for a lot of situations.
Who to date.
Where to go to college.
Who to marry.
Where to move.
What job to take.
And it’s not because you’re not praying. You’re probably praying a lot. It’s not because you don’t want to know His will. You probably aren’t lacking that desire.
But according to this verse in Proverbs, it’s because God conceals.
But why? After all, that seems counterintuitive to God’s purposes and using you in them.
The reason isn’t because God doesn’t want you to know His will. He wants you to know it more than you want to know it. God has something so much greater for you instead.
Him.
God’s not up in heaven hiding His will, hoping you’ll never be able to find it. But He does play hide and seek. He doesn’t just want us to find His will, He wants us to find Him in the process. Because if His will was in plain view, we would seek it instead of seeking Him.
That’s why he conceals it. That’s why it’s so hard.
The point isn’t for God to make His will plain. His will isn’t the main objective. He is the main objective. He wants you to discover Him above all else.
As you run after God and his good, pleasing, and perfect will, remember these two truths:
God isn’t the shortcut to your best life. He is your best life.
God doesn’t want to give you the guide for your life. He wants to be your Guide.
The scariest possibility for your life isn’t getting God’s will wrong. It’s getting God’s will right but barely coming to know God in the process.
You could love the right woman but lose your first love.
You could find the right career but then make it your god.
That’s why He doesn’t just write His will for you in the clouds. At the end of the process, He wants you to know something far greater than what you should do next with your life.
He wants you to know who He is.
*This post was adapted from Hide and Seek, originally posted February 16, 2011.