The obvious problem in trying to follow God's
will for our lives is God's recalcitrance about unambiguously communicating
that will. Oh, we will promptly think we know what it is. We will
plan our lives accordingly. Then when life unceremoniously tosses our
holy plans into the dumpster we will stubbornly hold onto those plans because
after all they are not our plans but God's plans.
Our will and God's will quickly become
convoluted because God is so danged secretive about whatever plan there
is. Our "willing" morphs into "willful" without our
noticing.
So for the umpteenth time it's back to the
drawing board to resketch the priorities God seems to have given us, maybe,
unless it's just our wishful thinking.
One is left to keep guessing, and adapt, and
incorporate, and compromise. Somewhere under all the practical
considerations still resides that desire to do God's will, were it only clearly
expressed. Somewhere in the passing years, advancing age, and compounding
shocks we of course may not "do" God's will, but we may live
it. Out of our control, unforeseen by our eyes, unanticipated in our
plans, we somehow live God's will. In that we can find some solace, some
salve for our tattered faith.
Commit your life to God's path, and promptly get
abjectly lost, gloriously lost, in the dense fog of unfolding healing and
redemption.
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