I have been thinking how God leads us in His will

Recently I have been seeking God for directions in my life. I am not seeing things happening as fast or as what I would have desired. During my quiet time, God brought me to the knowledge of the scripture below.

Psalm 139:16, “Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.”

When I first read this, it seems to me that how we are going to live each day has already been planned for us by God. This would be something that the secular world would call it “fate”. This means that whatever I do and how things will turn up in my life has already been “predestined”. If my business does well, it will be luck. If my business does not perform. It is fated. If someone met an accident or contracted certain diseases, it is fated or unlucky.

I started to ponder and mediate on the scriptures as I do not think this is what the scripture meant and how God wants us to lead our lives. It will be a hopeless one. So I started asking God and He gave me some answers as time passes.

Firstly, there is no mention of “luck” in the bible. God wants us to prosper in all things, just as our soul prospers. He delights in our prosperity.

Psalm 35:27, “Let the LORD be magnified, Who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.”

Deuteronomy 8:18, “Ad you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth”

Someone has asked me, “Why some non Christians are still able to make so much money and be so successful in their careers and businesses even though they are not Christians?” My answer was, “Probably God knows that He could only touch these people at those times of their lives.”

Secondly, the way I see Psalm 139:16 is God has given each one of us a specific calling in our life; even before we are born and that is His will for our lives. A calling which each of us need to find out what God wants us to do. Very often, this calling has the purpose of glorifying His name. For example, you might be called to be a successful businessman to finance the expansion of the kingdom of God. Or you might be called to be a teacher to touch the lives of students because you have the gift of interacting with kids.

Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

Who needs future and who needs hope? Us. And how do we define what future or desires we hope to achieve? By thinking about it.

Ephesians 3:20, “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,”

This means that each time we think of new dreams, God can make it bigger and better than that. When we are young, we dream of toys to buy. When we get a little older, we dream of getting good grades, good life partner, successful career, happy family and the list never ends.

In this way when we are very certain of God’s will in our lives and we think of our dreams that are aligned with God’s will, we can have the confidence that our dreams will come to pass eventually in spite of challenges, circumstances or situations that might seem otherwise. For His ways are higher than our ways.

Isaiah 55:8-9, ““For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.”

I am encouraged by His words.

Steve