One needn't turn hoary-headed to learn that the baton of life, has a way of showing up on our starting grids unannounced, requiring us to make life-changing decisions with no room for manoeuvres.
Dreams, Feelings & Intuitions,Visions, even Seers [prophets] have been known to sometimes fail particularly when it comes to trying to make sense of God's perfect will. All of these usually fail but Love!
This conundrum normally prompt those never-ending puzzles.
Questions such as:
-Did God really rubber-stamp this marriage, business, or venture in the first place: now that everything is heading for the rocks?
-Is losing one's limb or another's life really worth the pyrrhic victory?
-Wouldn't it have been all worth it: Had God [at the expense of Jesus & a severely tired Mary] simply obliterated the scheming King Herod as opposed to causing His own to take to flight?
Comprehending the above circumstantial dilemmas and a billion other nail-biting scenarios is man's life-long quest during his time here. Besides this has been responsible for why many have switched, hitched, or even ditched the existence of God.
Ultimately the objective of these situations is to bring to light a self-discovery and acknowledgement of man's incapacitation minus God [The evidence is all too glaring whether they are called the greatest,or the brainiest but absolutely powerless].
Finding out God's Will for one's life as discussed by the Award winning writer Dan Schaeffer in his frank, -with anecdotal as well as personal experiences- and yet lively book When Faith and Decisions Collide
, is still one relevant piece of life's maze man can't afford to continue unresolved.
It is helpful and affirming to see Dan explore this controversial topic from a world view perspective as opposed to a narrow-minded view.
I quite applaud his exegetical analogy of seeing God's will by looking through the retrospective rear-view mirror of life.
And it is indeed true that our journey through life may necessitate that we quickly come to terms with the fact that God oftentimes wouldn't reveal His complete will unto us until the future has become the past. He might only give a glimpse to spur us on. Or even that indelible snapshot etched within our hearts!
This in no way causes a collision with our ambition to succeed as human beings.
On the contrary, it is by understanding what true success means from God's perspective that living may then become truly meaningful.
And in conclusion, ditto as When Faith and Decisions Collide stresses it... Success can be a very false guide. Human success means we get or accomplish what we desire; real success is achieved when we accomplish what God desires. Therefore, we can encounter loss, failure, pain, opposition, persecution, and more, and yet be smack-dab in the middle of God's perfect will for our lives. While we see only the difficulty of the moment, God sees the effectiveness of the process.
Dreams, Feelings & Intuitions,Visions, even Seers [prophets] have been known to sometimes fail particularly when it comes to trying to make sense of God's perfect will. All of these usually fail but Love!
This conundrum normally prompt those never-ending puzzles.
Questions such as:
-Did God really rubber-stamp this marriage, business, or venture in the first place: now that everything is heading for the rocks?
-Is losing one's limb or another's life really worth the pyrrhic victory?
-Wouldn't it have been all worth it: Had God [at the expense of Jesus & a severely tired Mary] simply obliterated the scheming King Herod as opposed to causing His own to take to flight?
Comprehending the above circumstantial dilemmas and a billion other nail-biting scenarios is man's life-long quest during his time here. Besides this has been responsible for why many have switched, hitched, or even ditched the existence of God.
Finding out God's Will for one's life as discussed by the Award winning writer Dan Schaeffer in his frank, -with anecdotal as well as personal experiences- and yet lively book When Faith and Decisions Collide
, is still one relevant piece of life's maze man can't afford to continue unresolved.
It is helpful and affirming to see Dan explore this controversial topic from a world view perspective as opposed to a narrow-minded view.I quite applaud his exegetical analogy of seeing God's will by looking through the retrospective rear-view mirror of life.
And it is indeed true that our journey through life may necessitate that we quickly come to terms with the fact that God oftentimes wouldn't reveal His complete will unto us until the future has become the past. He might only give a glimpse to spur us on. Or even that indelible snapshot etched within our hearts!
This in no way causes a collision with our ambition to succeed as human beings.
On the contrary, it is by understanding what true success means from God's perspective that living may then become truly meaningful.
And in conclusion, ditto as When Faith and Decisions Collide
stresses it... Success can be a very false guide. Human success means we get or accomplish what we desire; real success is achieved when we accomplish what God desires. Therefore, we can encounter loss, failure, pain, opposition, persecution, and more, and yet be smack-dab in the middle of God's perfect will for our lives. While we see only the difficulty of the moment, God sees the effectiveness of the process.
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