Just Do Something for God and Live!

Now here's a book about discerning or enjoying the will of God that seems worth reading. Monergism Books summarizes it as follows:

"Pastor and author Kevin DeYoung counsels Christians to settle down, make choices, and do the hard work of seeing those choices through.

Too often, he writes, God’s people jump from church to church, workplace to workplace, relational circle to relational circle, worrying that they haven’t found God’s perfect will for their lives.

But God doesn’t need to tell us what to do at each fork in the road. He’s already revealed His plan for our lives: to love Him with our whole hearts, to obey His Word, and after that, to do what we like."

I think this summary itself is worth $8.79, which is what Monergism Books is selling it for Here.

I think that we belabor too much on discerning the perfect will of God for our lives rather than assigning Him the place of preeminence and in faith just going where He wants us to go, living where He wants us to live, serving where He wants us to serve, striving as He wants us to strive, struggling as He wants us to struggle, etc. I mean, we really do believe that God is sovereign and possesses omniscience? We really do trust that He knows what is best for us? We really do have faith that He who began a good work is us will surely see to it that He completes what He initiated in us?

I think we forget (or ignore) the reality that the Word of God is already the revealed will of God and instead venture into wanting more of what God has not revealed to us as if that which is already revealed is not sufficient enough or undesirable. By the way, do we ever wonder if God feels disrespected when we do that? Do we ever stop to think about how selfish we are when we are consumed with the will of God for our lives only?

I think what we should be striving for is not so much to discern the perfect will of God for our lives, but to seek even more to honor God in all our decisions and henceforth, be willing to submissively experience the unfolding of our choices before God. That is certainly more preferable, for it would make life so much more simplified, and the thought of a life more simplified makes it sensible to deduce that it would leave room for less distractions in our walk with God (at least potentially). Can we not all use less distraction in our lives anyway for the benefit of our souls (e.g., internet, TV, fastfood restaurants, etc.)?

Like Augustine said, "Love God and do what you please." Now, go live simply for the glory of God!