The myth behind knowing God's will

The myth behind knowing God's will

Patrick Mabilog 04 June 2016

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Many Christians today are on a quest to know the full extent of God's will, but thing is that God never promises us that He will reveal His whole plan to us overnight. He asks only that we trust in Him and chase after Jesus Christ as our prize and He will direct our steps as we walk unknown territory.
One of the biggest myths about God's will today is that we think we need to know the whole plan in order to effectively pursue it. We work hard in prayer, petition and devotion to see the big picture, but most of the time, God never gives us the whole picture. He asks us only to walk by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7).
Proverbs 3:5-6 sums it up best: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."
As wonderful that it is that God has given us a discerning mind, our wisdom will never be sufficient to understand the full plan of God.
God's plan is bigger than we think. While we're worrying about our bank accounts, God is thinking about the worldwide economic movement for the next hundred years. While we're thinking about our own personal breakthroughs, He has in mind the breakthroughs of nations and of the whole world. While you're thinking about how to pay your electricity bill, He's thinking about how to save that family who lives next door.  We will never be able to understand God's whole intricate and intertwined plan for us and for all mankind in full.

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Sure God can and will reveal to us parts of it that He knows we should know. God made it known to Abraham that He would be the father of a nation, but even in that Abraham almost missed the point and ruined everything when He bore Ishmael with Hagar. In Isaiah 55:9, God reminds us, "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."
So how do we respond to God's will then if we don't know what's going to happen? That's why it's important that we trust in God that even when we don't understand what He's doing, we trust that He works not only for us but for the whole world to be blessed.
Importantly, Romans 8:28 says, "And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good,[a] for those who are called according to his purpose."
God's plan won't always make sense to us. There will be times that we will have to blindly follow, but Jesus and His sacrifice are more than enough proof for us that God only works to give us life and life to the full. Never to deceive, take advantage of or destroy us, but only to bless, prosper and deliver us.