MONDAY October 21, 2024
Knowing the Knowledge of God’s Will
For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding....
Colossians 1:9
I love how Paul started to develop his prayer for the Colossian fellowship. He never ceased praying that they would be filled with the knowledge of God’s perfect will for their lives. This is a common question asked by believers, “What is God’s will for my life?” The Word of God makes God’s will easy to understand. Consider how Paul instructed believers to know the will of God for their lives in these two passages of Scripture:
Romans 12:1-2 NLT: And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-7 NLT: God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin. Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor—not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways. Never harm or cheat a fellow believer in this matter by violating his wife, for the Lord avenges all such sins, as we have solemnly warned you before. God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives.
Reread these passages and answer these questions for yourself. In what ways can you learn to do God’s will? What is God’s revealed will?
Like Paul, my prayer for you is that your life would be in complete submission to Jesus Christ, because only then will you be filled with the knowledge of God’s will for your life. I know that, as you give yourself to the study of God’s Word, you will receive the wisdom and guidance to always do His will.
Is it difficult to know God’s will? There is a simple answer which is this: God’s will is for everyone to obey His Word.
~Billy Graham~
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