The Will of God versus Your Emotions

[justlookin]

Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord

Do you think that the will of God could involve a test? Could it be that God's will may actually seem like a very bad, horrid thing to our flesh, and mind, but yet, be His perfect will in accomplishing something greater in us?

The reason I ask this is because we tend to believe we have found "God's will" when all seems good in our lives... the bills are paid, our health is excellent, family is getting along, and we have a lovely home, vacation planned, and so on. Surely this must be God's will... we think.

However, should something terrible enter our lives, say, a death, or the dreaded disease of cancer, or a division in a family, or in the church.... could these be part of God's will too?

Yes, I think a testing could be part of God's will at times. For example, about this time last year I had a medical report that was extremely negative. Doctors confirmed it, there was a very very life threatening issue they said. My reaction was to not receive the report, I believed the will of God for my life didn't involve what was being said to me by them. I had promises that were yet unfulfilled, direction in ministry that had not occurred yet and a road ahead that He had put me on that was yet untraveled. All this was God speaking to me, I believe. The report, the testing, was contrary to what God had spoken. So, I chose to believe what God had spoken to me, not what the experts said. Now, almost a year later the critical untreatable, life threatning issue (they said) is nowhere to be found.

That's a very simplified version of my experience. In reality, because of our carnality that battles us, there is a wrestling, a warfare that we must engage in. Did God really speak to me and make those promises, directions, or was it just mental gymnastics? Imagination. Hope without a spiritual basis. I had to decide, literally risking my life (the testing) if I was going to act on what I believed was the voice of God or the reality of the voice of the doctors.

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by justlookin

Yes, I think a testing could be part of God's will at times. For example, about this time last year I had a medical report that was extremely negative. Doctors confirmed it, there was a very very life threatening issue they said. My reaction was to not receive the report, I believed the will of God for my life didn't involve what was being said to me by them. I had promises that were yet unfulfilled, direction in ministry that had not occurred yet and a road ahead that He had put me on that was yet untraveled. All this was God speaking to me, I believe. The report, the testing, was contrary to what God had spoken. So, I chose to believe what God had spoken to me, not what the experts said. Now, almost a year later the critical untreatable, life threatning issue (they said) is nowhere to be found.

That's a very simplified version of my experience. In reality, because of our carnality that battles us, there is a wrestling, a warfare that we must engage in. Did God really speak to me and make those promises, directions, or was it just mental gymnastics? Imagination. Hope without a spiritual basis. I had to decide, literally risking my life (the testing) if I was going to act on what I believed was the voice of God or the reality of the voice of the doctors.

That is an miraculous testimony JL... thanks for sharing! Praising the Lord with you for the touch of the Lord through this health battle!

In all reality, as believers, we should be aware that the will of God may take us to places, through places, and in places that don't seem fair, right, or good, but in the end... His will and purpose for it can turn it into the greatest blessing of our lives.

[justlookin]

Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord

That is an miraculous testimony JL... thanks for sharing! Praising the Lord with you for the touch of the Lord through this health battle!

In all reality, as believers, we should be aware that the will of God may take us to places, through places, and in places that don't seem fair, right, or good, but in the end... His will and purpose for it can turn it into the greatest blessing of our lives.

Amen. The decision is whether to trust God in the testings. Surely not an easy and simple thing to do sometimes.