what is God’s will for us as young adults? God’s will is One Person, One Way, and One Goal!

We recently enjoyed a sharing by brother Ron regarding God’s will – as young adults and as ones who are pursuing the Lord, we many times ask ourselves, we ask others, and we ask the Lord, What is God’s will for me?

Usually, we relate God’s will for ourselves – what is God’s will for me, for my life, for my family, for my future, etc. But God’s will is NOT centered around you and is not focused on you – God’s will is something that God desires and wants to do!

If we see what God’s will is – read Col. 1:9 and Col. 4:12 – and even arrive at the full knowledge and maturity in knowing His will, then the ones under our care and the ones around us in the church life will be much benefited.

We need to see a vision of what God’s will is – especially as we grow in the human life and the divine life, and more responsibility/burdens/service is entrusted to us. God’s will is simple – ONE PERSON, ONE WAY, and ONE GOAL. We need to have a proper understanding and a proper knowledge of God’s will.

God’s will is ONE PERSON – Christ! God wills that we enjoy, experience, and seek only the person of Christ.

Christ wants to make His home in our heart, He wants to be formed in us, and He wants to become everything to us.

Through the Spirit, God arranges many situations and circumstances so that we may gain Christ. It may be through the banalities and the ordinary experiences we have in our human life that we can turn to the Lord and enjoy Him.

Human life is NOT filled with amazing and extraordinary things or events – God wants us that in our routine mundane things we would gain Christ more.

He just wants us to learn to contact, enjoy, and experience the Lord. This is versus any self-cultivating, self-improving, or self-perfecting – we are before the Lord and in His hand, under a constant discipline that tears down the old creation and at the same time build Christ into our being.

There is no way out of this – the Lord will perfect us. We need to do all the normal things people do – have a family life, have a job, take care of people, pay our bills, etc. But in all these things the Lord arranges all kinds of details, in a mysterious way, to motivate us to seek Christ more!

Our human life is an endless series of misunderstandings, failures, and unexplainable things happening to us. All our problems and situations are under the Lord’s sovereign hand – simply because God’s will is for us to enjoy and gain Christ!

God’s will is one way – the cross. God solves all the problems in the universe by the cross. He does not negotiate – He terminates!

You may have cleared your past, you are consecrated to the Lord, you know how to deal with sin, you deal with the world, you have a clear conscience, etc – but you still need to go on and allow the cross of Christ to deal with the flesh, the self, and the natural constitution.

Whether you are building up the Body or you minister life to the ones around you is determined on how much you allow the cross to operate in you. Yes, the Lord gives you a helper – your spouse – but she/he may NOT be the help that you expect but the help YOU NEED!

In all our Christian life, our family life, and our church life we are being exposed more and more – and we think “we are getting worse every day”. Actually, what happens is that the flesh, the self, and the natural constitution is being exposed, and we see more what we are beneath the surface! We see what the flesh is, what the natural man and the natural constitution is – and we simply apply the cross! This is God’s will for us. His will is NOT for us to suffer, but for us to be terminated by the cross of Christ.

God’s will has one goal – the church! He put us in the church to be built up with the other saints and to serve! It would be so beautiful if we would serve in the church life – yet without any ambition. Often the brothers in their service are motivated by their ambition – to serve with ambition in the church life is SAD.

In Revelation 2 we see that the church in Ephesus had lost their first love – and the Lord encourages them not just to recover their first love for Him, but also to do the first works! The first love for the Lord is expressed in the first works for Him.

What are “the first works”? The first works are concrete and specific practical actions of service that are motivated only by our love for the Lord.

None of the services in the church life are “glamorous” or “glorious”, yet we cannot have the church life without service. We all need to serve in the church life – yet when you serve don’t serve with an ambition: simply serve out of your love for the Lord and according to your burden from the Lord and the fellowship with the brothers!

Also, regarding our jobs and our time – we need to accept jobs and manage our time in such a way that it would NOT detriment the church life, in such a way that we would NOT be kept away from meeting with the saints! Reserve time and energy weekly for the practical service in the church!

A very practical way to experience Christ in the Body is to serve practically in the church life.

Praise You, Lord, for Your Will! God’s will is Christ! May we gain You more every day! Lord, keep us turning to You in all our situations and in all that we go through! We want to accept Your dealing and Your cross – deal with everything in us that is NOT YOU! May nothing but Your own pure life remain. Purify us, Lord, and grow in us. Increase our desire to enjoy You and seek You. O, Lord, thank You for the church life! Save us from serving with an ambition… we want to be those who serve You out of our love for You. Lord, we love You! Go on in us!