Determining God’s will in our daily lives can be both difficult and easy. It can be difficult if you listen to television, radio or internet preachers who pretend to have special messages from God. Who can you believe? They seem always to be finding things that are new and unusual. It can be difficult to know whom we are to trust.
Likewise there are many religious people who claim that the Bible is old fashioned and that much of what it says is no longer appropriate for life in the 21st Century. God’s plan for marriage is prejudiced and irrelevant. The miracles are myths written for a pre-scientific era. We no longer need all the baggage that the Bible brings to the table. It’s difficult to know which parts of the Bible should be tossed out as superstition.
Trying to sort through all these opinions can be difficult. But it can also be easy, if we remember that God tells us not to add to what He has commanded and not to take away from it either.
God’s will is revealed in His holy word as contained in the Bible. It tells us all He wants us to know about His love for us in Christ. It tells us of forgiveness, faith and life. God has not kept secret His will but freely shares it with all who are willing to believe.
Prayer: Father, send Your Holy Spirit into our hearts so that we may know and believe your will as revealed to us in the Bible. Help us to see that the entire Bible points to the cross of Christ, our Savior. Amen.
God’s richest blessings in Christ,
Pastor Philip Quardokus
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