Gods Simple Will For Your Life

[GodsChild07]

There are many believers who spend every spare hour looking through their Bibles, in a search to find out what God's will is for them. They use study guides and even go to Bible Study classes. Some will spend their entire lives doing this. Some are waiting for a sign from God, telling them what they should do.

These people, searching through a forest of words are looking right past the obvious. They are missing the simple will that God has for all of us.

So, what is that simple will? What is it that he has wanted from us since the days of Adam? Two things - only two things. 1. Trust God completely: Put your life in his hands and let him take all of your worries, cares, burdens and pain. 2. Love each other: Live to be a blessing to all. Practice a life of kindness. Be a blessing everywhere you go. That's all. There was a third one added later - 3. Accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior.

But the first two is what man was unable to do. How would the world have been if man had been able to do those two simple things? There would have been no need for the Ten Commandments. There would have been no need for "The Law". There would have been no need for Jesus to come. History would have been completely different.

Imagine a world where all loved each other. THAT IS WHAT GOD WANTS! Then why is it that in 1700 years, the church has been unable to do this? Because it is just too simple for a church, which has overcomplicated every aspect of serving God. "You have to do this and you have to do that". "You can't do this and you can't do that."

STOP LOOKING AND START LOVING! STOP SEARCHING AND START TRUSTING! It really is that simple! It really is all he wants.

If you can do, live, those two things, you will please God to a point where his favor and blessing will fall upon you. If you believe that his favor and blessing is already upon you, you haven't seen anything yet.

[lilmissmontana]

I wanted to take a moment and tell you how much I enjoyed your post. A pure glimpse of wisdom in simplicity.

The word's that came into my mind while I read your post were in Jewell's song when she say, "I'm sensitive and I'd like to stay that way. Not sure why. Perhaps they will mean something to you.

The next thing that came to mind was to give your heart something from my heart. It took awhile. I looked and looked. When I saw this I knew it was it. Again, not sure why. Maybe it will mean something to you .... belle


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[SharonL]

Such beauty and wisdom in these posts.

I have a friend that really puts my patience to test - I don't know if she is right or if I am right.

Her life is always in turmoil - panicsville all the time - and at every corner she will say I don't know what God wants me to do - and she will wait and wait - desperate for money and still will wait for a sign from God or a prophesy from someone at her church.

I always tell her - just live your life by what you think the Holy Spirit is guiding you to do and if it is not God's Will - He will put a check in your Spirit. But she will still wait for a sign and it is always panic.

I can't say much because she feels she hears from God better than I do and maybe she does - but I don't understand her way of thinking - I tell her that I wish God would put a note on my wall also about what to do - but we have do some thinking on our own.

[GodsChild07]

I wanted to take a moment and tell you how much I enjoyed your post. A pure glimpse of wisdom in simplicity.

The word's that came into my mind while I read your post were in Jewell's song when she say, "I'm sensitive and I'd like to stay that way. Not sure why. Perhaps they will mean something to you.

The next thing that came to mind was to give your heart something from my heart. It took awhile. I looked and looked. When I saw this I knew it was it. Again, not sure why. Maybe it will mean something to you .... belle


http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd5/lilmissmontana/MotherTheresaquote.jpg?t=1194889902

Thank You - it was perfect!

[lilmissmontana]

Cool!

[jive4005]

Walkin' the walk! Yup.

rev

[GodsChild07]

Walkin' the walk! Yup.

rev
Yup

[JeCrois]

There are many believers who spend every spare hour looking through their Bibles, in a search to find out what God's will is for them. They use study guides and even go to Bible Study classes. Some will spend their entire lives doing this. Some are waiting for a sign from God, telling them what they should do.

These people, searching through a forest of words are looking right past the obvious. They are missing the simple will that God has for all of us.

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Isn't it sad!?....because all of what you say is right there in plain black and white as obvious as ever...but some people just persistantly refuse to see that!

Mark 12:29-31
29"The most important [commandment]," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' 31The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

John 3:16
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

[Waddell]

By who's standard of kindness? By who's standard of love?

Rom 7:7
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."
NKJV

[GodsChild07]

By who's standard of kindness? By who's standard of love?

Rom 7:7
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."
NKJV

Some people just can't see it and some never will.

[jive4005]

By who's standard of kindness? By who's standard of love?

Rom 7:7
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."
NKJV
By who's standard...? why Jesus of course!

rev

[HephzibahBenJudah]

Ecc 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man.

Ecc 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil.

[razzelflabben]

When I read this thread I became confused, are we talking about God's commands to us, His people or God's purpose for us His people? When you say God's will what does will mean to you? To me it means both purpose and commands and where you talk about commands, I see nothing about purpose. Since God's purpose is something He has been teaching me, I am curious as to which you refer here.

[GodsChild07]

When I read this thread I became confused, are we talking about God's commands to us, His people or God's purpose for us His people? When you say God's will what does will mean to you? To me it means both purpose and commands and where you talk about commands, I see nothing about purpose. Since God's purpose is something He has been teaching me, I am curious as to which you refer here.

Please, stop over-analyzing. When I say "will" I am refering to His desire.

[jive4005]

... and I'm pretty sure His commands to us suit His purpose for us... to a "T".
Yup.

rev

[Waddell]

I've seen all manner of horrible things done in the name of "love" or "kindness". So again I ask, by who's standard? If that standard is not to be found in the bible, then where?

[Br0kenSunshyne]

In the Church. In God's people.

[Waddell]

In the Church. In God's people.

Really? They constitute the "standard" of love and kindness? Surely you jest?! ;) :D

[razzelflabben]

When I read this thread I became confused, are we talking about God's commands to us, His people or God's purpose for us His people? When you say God's will what does will mean to you? To me it means both purpose and commands and where you talk about commands, I see nothing about purpose. Since God's purpose is something He has been teaching me, I am curious as to which you refer here.
Here's the thing, God's purpose is to marry the physical and spiritual into one. He does this through the Lord Jesus Christ, it is finished at the resurrection. However, our life is a journey to this purpose, to joining and become so entangled with the HS that the two become one. It is in this as the bible calls it mystery, that we see lives transformed and people who live in love and kindness, not just live as they want but claim it to be of God.

But.......God's command to His people is to Love. This love is not possible unless we are allowing His purpose into our lives because it is His love, not ours. The first problem here is in understanding what love really is. Love is not an emotion that ebbs and flows, but rather a constant that to blind eyes sometimes doesn't even resemble love, because we can't fathom what it is. Take my children for example. I love them always but when I correct them, they don't see it as love, they aren't feeling loved in that moment. It doesn't mean that love is not there, in fact, my correction is a massive show of love. The second problem is that we try to do away with God's purpose and love in and of our own. But the kind of love God calls us to is not within the physical world at all, but rather only in the spirit. So it is vital to understand the difference and to live a life in which the physical and the spiritual become one so that we can fulfill the command of the King to love with an unnatural love. Thus I asked you which you meant.

But since I over analysis this, go ahead and explain why people who call themselves Christ's lack total love. Explain why the church calls hate and judgment love and the world sits and wonders why they would ever want to know a God who allows hatred to be called love and judgment to be called kind. I am anxious to hear your answers to those questions which have been asked of you.

[GodsChild07]

I've seen all manner of horrible things done in the name of "love" or "kindness". So again I ask, by who's standard? If that standard is not to be found in the bible, then where?

If it is horrible, it isn't love. Love can be a cheap word or a priceless dedication.

[Andry]

Please, stop over-analyzing. When I say "will" I am refering to His desire.
Since God is love, a lot of things come out of love. Here's three that are rarely used in this context....

Matt 23:23
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others. [emphasis mine]

[lilmissmontana]

As I was reading this since the last time I was here a verse kept popping into my head. So I'm just gonna give it.

Titus 1:15

Unto the pure all things are pure:
but unto them that are defiled and
unbelieving is nothing pure; but even
their mind and conscience is defiled.

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I think this fits right along with the second greatest commandment:

Matthew 22:39

And the second is like unto it,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

It's just a thought but maybe part of the problem is not everyone likes, much less, loves themself.

[razzelflabben]

If it is horrible, it isn't love. Love can be a cheap word or a priceless dedication.this does not answer the question, unless of course you are asserting that the church is not governed by love which =God. So what then is the church governed by if not God=Love?

[razzelflabben]

It's just a thought but maybe part of the problem is not everyone likes, much less, loves themself.
Or God?