What about what God wants? This is one question we don't find too many people asking these days. It's always what we want, what we need, what we must have, our children, our husbands, our parents, our families, our jobs, and many other things we pursue. All these things are quite alright but have we really taken out time to ask God what he wants. I'm not yet a parent so I might not be able to say much on what it takes to provide for another but I am a student and I don't see too many of my counterparts concerned about this. We are so consumed with the need to "make it" in life and be successful that we can do anything it takes, I mean anything! Not many want to be identified as 'churchous' much less even be committed to church stuff as we call it but at the close shave of almost being caught with 'expo' in the exam hall, we mutter 'thank you Jesus'. It is good to have visions, dream big, study work hard and all that but we must remember that we were first created before we could even exist.
Just as a father expects to get results from a child he is bringing up don't you think God expects certain results from us too? We need to come that point where our desires and actions resonates what God wants, where we are in line with his will for our lives. At this point I'd tell a story I read from a book titled "The true nature of God by Andrew Wommack. It was about a certain young man of God who wanted to know what theological school God wanted him to go to so he asked, "God is it A or B? And God said B. After about six months in college he felt he was being led to leave and go serve in a small church under a pastor for a while. He tried to resist this leading until he cried out in frustration to God, "why didn't you just tell me from the onset? Why did you allow me to start college then ask me to leave afterwards?!" God replied, "Son you only gave me two options and I chose the better one."
And this is what most of us do, we go, "Okay God, I got this job offer and am taking it cause the pay is good and I got a lotta bills to settle, just make sure I don't lose it", then they lose the job and go, "God doesn't answer prayers after all".
Enough about us and what we want. Let us, old or young, single or married truly begin to seek Him not for our own selfish desires but for what would please him.
One of the greatest reasons for being unable to trust God's process is that it could be painfully slow. But what we fail to realize is that he has the roadmap of our lives already and he knows every stop and turn, he knows where danger is lurking and he stalls us in training school so as to avoid them or be able to deal with them completely but nope, we want to walk right into it just so we're moving. I have made mistakes that I know could have been avoided and I paid dearly for them and I know most of us can attest to this fact in their lives too.
It's time to stop living life by chance, by trial and error. Of course you won't get it right in one day but start taking deliberate steps towards making what God wants a priority in your life. How? Simply ask, start to build a relationship with him if you don't have and let him lead and guide you in the way he sees fit.
Always trust the process, it works.
Always
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