Many people are confused by the will of God because they don't have a firm foundation of the Gospel of Grace. They have just heard everyone else's opinion and have come to conclusions based on what they heard. A phrase commonly used is "We can never understand God or His will" or something along those lines.
While I believe God is amazingly big and awesome and mind blowing - I disagree.
You have heard this before -
no eye has seen,
no ear has heard,and no human mind has conceived”
the things God has prepared for those who love him.
No one ever reads the following verses. Look at the Message translation for 1 Corinthians 2:9-13:
No one's ever seen or heard anything like this,
Never so much as imagined anything quite like it—
What God has arranged for those who love him.
But you've seen and heard it because God by his Spirit has brought it all out into the open before you.
The Spirit, not content to flit around on the surface, dives into the depths of God, and brings out what God planned all along. Who ever knows what you're thinking and planning except you yourself? The same with God—except that he not only knows what he's thinking, but he lets us in on it. God offers a full report on the gifts of life and salvation that he is giving us. We don't have to rely on the world's guesses and opinions. We didn't learn this by reading books or going to school; we learned it from God, who taught us person-to-person through Jesus, and we're passing it on to you in the same firsthand, personal way.
Wow.
This is all based on the knowledge that you have the Holy Spirit on the inside of you. He doesn't come and go. He is always there. Let me let you in on a little secret - the list of things you can hope for (an ultimately have faith will happen) is much bigger than you can conceive. But He will continually show you!
Here is a small list for starters -
Praise the LORD, my soul,
and forget not all his benefits—
who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. (Psalm 103)
Never so much as imagined anything quite like it—
What God has arranged for those who love him.
But you've seen and heard it because God by his Spirit has brought it all out into the open before you.
The Spirit, not content to flit around on the surface, dives into the depths of God, and brings out what God planned all along. Who ever knows what you're thinking and planning except you yourself? The same with God—except that he not only knows what he's thinking, but he lets us in on it. God offers a full report on the gifts of life and salvation that he is giving us. We don't have to rely on the world's guesses and opinions. We didn't learn this by reading books or going to school; we learned it from God, who taught us person-to-person through Jesus, and we're passing it on to you in the same firsthand, personal way.
Wow.
This is all based on the knowledge that you have the Holy Spirit on the inside of you. He doesn't come and go. He is always there. Let me let you in on a little secret - the list of things you can hope for (an ultimately have faith will happen) is much bigger than you can conceive. But He will continually show you!
Here is a small list for starters -
Praise the LORD, my soul,
and forget not all his benefits—
who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. (Psalm 103)
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