Walking in His Will

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Proverbs 3:6

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

We shape and order our existence by the hundreds of decisions we make each day, and most of these are so trivial that we make them almost automatically. For many of us, the question of God’s will hardly enters into our decisions apart from those unusual times when we realize that a specific choice could affect the rest of our lives. Because the consequences of a wrong choice at a point like this could be disastrous, we suddenly break out of our usual habits and begin to pursue and sometimes agonize over God’s mind on the matter. We sometimes make knowing the will of God as a support system rather than a way of life.

Jesus is the perfect example who showed us how to live a normal Christian life. He is God but also human with every form of limitations every human experience. He had to make decisions at every point of His life as well, where to go and minister, what to say and what not to say, the kind of food to eat etc. Although there were suggestive instances where he went apart to pray, however, majority of is decisions we spontaneous and almost automatic. What was Jesus showing us? He was teaching us how to live from the presence of the Father. Jesus lived always in response to what the Father will have him do, he acknowledged the Father consciously and had the habit of involving in smallest things like the breaking of bread, the result every time is that the Father directed his part.

We make thousands of decisions each day, most of them unconscious (which shoe to put on first, when to look out the window), and it would be impossible, not to say foolish, to seek God’s counsel on each of these decisions. But there are still a number of decisions that are significant enough to capture our attention in the course of each day. A deliberate acknowledgment of the presence of God during these times will carry us far in making God’s will a way of life rather than a crisis experience. The fabric of our lives is woven out of the threads of such minor choices, so it is wise to form the habit of being conscious of God while making them. This habit of taking God seriously in small decisions will make major decisions less traumatic.