soe@spectrum.cmc.com (Frankie Baby) (07/18/90)
I love the Lord Jesus Christ and everything he did and does
for us. I know our lives are or should be involved with him,
for goodness, and whole heartly.
We constantly ask for things, money, food, health (heeling).
I wonder, and this is where my question comes in....
If my life is going a certain direction, primarily with my
job, location and especially my Companion. I ask the Lord
for direction is now the time to settle down, get married to
this sweet girl, do I wait, is she right for me? I've been
married before and I thought it was right then.
How do I know I am living my life and making the decision
the Lord wants me to. What signs from him do I look for?
If I feel doubts about this relationship, does this mean
our Lord is speaking to my heart ? Maybe it is not ment for
me to be with her, but someone else I do not know of today.
Any comments
Are appreciated
--
Frank
** "The views expressed are mine (of course) **
** and have nothing to do with my profession" **gunner@ivanhoe.intel.com (Gunner Danneels) (07/24/90)
A short time ago there was a message posing the question of How do we
know what God's will is for our life? Sorry, this is my first posting
and I don't know how to insert the message text. I thought I would
post some of my opinions on God's will since I have been going through
most of the same questions in thinking about asking a wonderful woman
to marry me. Here's what I have come up with.
1) It is NEVER God's will for us that we sin.
There is enough Scripture support for this one.
2) I don't think that it is God's will for us to place ourselves into
a personal area of particular temptation, even if it is to glorify God.
There is just too much chance of falling. By all means support those
who are stronger than you in this area but flee from temptation.
Joseph did not try to witness to Pharoh's wife in a secret part of the
palace he kept everything on the up and up and refused her advances.
So what do we do in an area with two or more equally good choices, like
jobs, like deciding to get married ?
3) Being in the Lord's will does not always mean that you are going to
feel great peace and happiness about one choice that is God's will
and great upset about another. Sometimes you might and that's fantastic,
but what has helped me is looking and the story of Joseph and Mary.
Look at it in terms of Joseph. He has just found out that his bride
to be is
pregnant. It probably seemed to him that his world was coming apart
around him. Being a man of God I am SURE that he prayed about what
he should do, probably long and hard. Then notice what he did, he
decided to put Mary away. It was obviously God's will that he marry
her and they raise our Saviour. However Joseph chose the other path.
God couldn't have given him peace and happiness and joy about keeping
Mary, otherwise he would have chosen that path.
4) God's will is ALWAYS that we glorify him in all parts of our lives,
wherever we are and whatever we are doing.
Whenever I have to make a decision I check it against 1 and 2, then pray
about it and see if God is really directing one way or another. If it
seems to be a choice between equally good alternatives and God is not
strongly directing me toward one of them, I make a decision logically
and with all of the reason that God endowed me with. Then I make sure
that I am constantly doing #4 in my decision.
If this helps anyone then I am happy that I have posted it. These are
just my opinions about making decisions in the will of God please treat
them as such.
Gunner