How to confuse Gods perfect will

 

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As Waren Weirsbe said “Satan is deceptive, he likes to use Gods vocabulary but not Gods dictionary”. 

 

The book of Colossians is written to a new church/body of believers.

They are facing all kinds of consuming messages from their community and political and religious world… They really want to know Gods will in all matters…

In Col. 1:9-15 Paul is saying “GOD WANTS YOU TO KNOW HIS WILL, UNDERSTAND IT AND KNOW HOW TO EXECUTE IT = Thru the spiritual realm.

 

How to know Gods will?

Paul tells them to seek out conferences, visions, dreams, the next hot evangelist and the opinions of influencers on Social media, go to a lot of different churches - NOT! 

 

There is Gods general will - seen clearly in scripture. We see what he desires for all of us. To serve, to make him known, to glorify him, to sacrifice for him… 

But then there is His specific will for each of us - BTW his specific will never goes against his general will. 

So how exactly does God want us to serve, sacrifice, glorify, love… in what job, in what gifting, in what area of church or relationship… and how do I do it, when, where… these are all the specifics of his personal will for us… but here is why many times we don’t see it… Paul shares a secret in Colossians 1:11 through endurance and patience. 

 

*Pushing in and not giving up…

Rich Buhler (insert joke there) in his book new Choices new boundaries realized that everything that caused him to grow in his life was due to problems along with perseverance and pushing in. Every Good thing, everytime you find yourself right in the middle of Gods will… you will realize it did not happen by accident - it happened because you faced some unknown, some problems and you persevered and pushed into them and through that God brought you into the center of his will.

The life of Joseph right? Problem after problem after problem… and he was not even the cause of them… but he pushed in, persevered and knew that What others meant for harm God meant for placing him in the center of his perfect will. 

Today, push in, persevere and thank God you are entering into is perfect will.