Are We Wrong About What It Means To Be In The Lord's Will?
What if I told you so very many of us are off kilter. Maybe even wrong. About what it means to be in the Lord's will.
History teaches us that human nature always drifts to extremes. I don’t know if that is an aspect of the fruit. Or our sinful nature. Or something else...
But we always take things and run with them and get out of healthy balance over time. It just always seems to happen at a societal level.
Whether it’s with our actions. Or with our thinking. Or with our opinions. They typically become more rigid and narrow over time. Even extreme some would say. It's just the nature of the pendulum swing of humanity.
Wisdom teaches us the opposite though.
I realize more and more how profound the Word is when it says “all is vanity”.
Have you ever considered that you can be in the Lord's will doing many things. Even all the things. And you can also be in the Lord's will doing nothing?
Yes. There are seasons for everything. Absolutely.
Why are there seasons though? Because of the Lord's will.
You see. You can be doing “nothing” for the kingdom and be in the Lord's will. Because the Lord also wants you to experience and enjoy life. Because He made the choice to create you. He didn’t have to. But He did chose to make you. And part of His will can very much be for you to have times where you enjoy life.
Yes. Some people lead horrific and tortured lives. Living out their lives, every minute of their lives in violence, abuse, trafficking, slavery and more. And that’s beyond horrible. And we cannot understand the Lord on those things, outside of the fundamental truth of “the Lord created the universe and this is how the universe has chosen to behave with its free will.”
Sometimes the Lord wants you doing 4,000 things. But sometimes the Lord wants you enjoying the life he chose to give you.
And other times we don’t listen, we disobey the Lord. And that is often when we spend our time lazily not doing the work.
All that being said:
- It’s ok to be in a season of rest
- It’s ok to be in a season of work
- It’s ok to be in a season of enjoying life
- It’s ok to be in a season where things are tough and stressful
The only thing that matters is:
Are you doing, when turned prompts you to do?
Are you being wise, good, and as righteous as possible when you are in between the Lord's prompting ?
Or
Are you disobeying him? Ignoring him? Or perhaps running away from what he’s promoting you to do because it’s “too scary” or “too hard” or “I have to change my situation to do that, and I don’t want to change because I don't know what life is like on the other side.”?