Do you think knowing God's will is important?

Do you think it is relevant or will make a difference in the way you walk and pursue a life for Christ?

The answer is Yes and at the same time No.

I recently finished reading "The Forgotten God" (of which I wrote a short review in this blogpost), and one of the chapter focuses on knowing God's will. I was awakened by something when I read it, I came to realize something that I had been struggling for some time and wondering in my mind for a while: Is knowing God's will the focus of my life?


This is an important question that everyone should make themselves. It is important, but at the same time, are you letting all your time and energy focus on that? One thing that struck me was that the author stressed that knowing God's will isn't that important. I was at first shocked by that, but after thinking about it for a minute, I thought that was true.

Here is my reason for agreeing with this statement: Knowing God's will is important and we should seek to know His will, but that can become the focus of everything we do, to the point that what God currently does in our lives is overshadowed by the focus on "something better" that we totally ignore the valuable lessons that God is trying to show us in this moment.

Personally, I struggle with this a lot, I always focus on a prize I see ahead in the road instead of focusing on the things that God is doing right now in my life. I see them as not as important because I know that God has something greater, I keep praying for God's will to be revealed in my life without realizing that what is going on right now is in God's will, but I am never content with what He does for me. I tend to want to travel in time to the future and start living it, without wanting to go through the path that I am currently walking in.

Another thing that struck me is how we pray for God's will, as if it was something that through prayer God will change (I actually touched on this in a recent blog post). God has already set everything for us, we should be praying instead that we will be conformed to His will, not the other way around. I was talking with a friend about this today, and one thing we came to agree is how Christians pray, and pray, and pray some more sometimes for long extended periods of time for God to give them some sort of sign or speak to them about His will, without realizing that if God puts something in their heart they need to obey it. It might seem like something small at the time, but if it is what He wants you to do, then do it.

Let's say for instance, God wants you to go on a mission trip to another country, and you know He wants you to, but you keep hesitating, maybe out of fear or doubt, but you know it is God's will. There is nothing wrong with praying and wanting to be 100% sure that is what God wants from you, but don't you think that it being in your heart is sign enough? I struggle with that at times, not with going on mission trips (which for my own reasons I know is not my calling, I may expand on that later), but with things that I know He wants for my life, and I hesitate, wait, pray and sometimes that period of prayer becomes long, to the point where I set in my mind that it might not be God's will because "He won't tell me". I still pray for things that God puts in my heart, but I am learning to be more of a man of action, instead of waiting and waiting when I know I shouldn't wait and just do it.

God's will is important and knowing it is important as well, but the point I am trying to make is that we tend to lose focus on what it is, live today, not in the future. There is nothing wrong with working towards something that God has told you to do (if you are called to be a Pastor, then working and getting the right preparation is a perfect example).

Best way to know His will, is reading His Word, God's Holy Scriptures that He has left for us to study and learn from, that is what I have learned to rely on instead of letting my thoughts and imagination take over.