The Will of God

Growing up in Church, I heard the weirdest things. For example, “God’s will could be you marrying a short, ugly man with no money…” Erm, Excuse me? Did I hear clearly?

Couldn’t God’s will be that I’d end up with a rich, handsome man like the ones I saw on TV? Must it be this idea that even older folks advised against?

It was more talks like this that made me think that God was this overbearing and wicked Almighty being that wasn’t interested in my happiness and wanted my life to go miserably.

I couldn’t wrap my head around this and at a point, I avoided it completely. Instead, I focused on doing worship. “Abi is it not to be singing? I can sing small so, I can’t fail at that one.”

From then on, that term, ‘God’s will’ stayed confusing and dreadful. I didn’t want anything to do with it. Let it be that I didn’t know the will. I couldn’t be punished for what I didn’t know and went on with my life.

But you see, the Lord blocked it! The Lord said, “you will see and you will know.” And boy, did I see and know! *insert laughing out loud emoji*

The problem has never been with God. It’s with how He’s been introduced to us.

Many people are confused about God because of the ignorance of a zealous preacher that didn’t understand God’s true nature.

This reluctance towards knowing God and doing anything God-related is because of misconceptions like the ones I had as a child. I know you can relate to this.

But as a believer, the Bible is my standard so let’s see what God has to say about all this.

Jesus was preaching to His followers when He said,

“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?” (Matthew 6:25 KJV)

In this passage, Jesus sounded like He was upset about this way that humans lived without trusting God. How can you be worrying about your needs when the flowers and birds, who aren’t in anyway as special as humans, are taken care of by God Himself?

To wrap up His preaching, He says;

“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Matthew 6:33 KJV)

Think about it: for you to want to provide for others, that means you care. For you to care, that means you love.

Jesus was trying to introduce a God to us. This God takes His time tending wild fields of lilies, patiently painting their colors until He weeps at their perfection. Yet they’d be trampled upon today or taken to the fire tomorrow.

This God. gives birds food to eat everyday even though they could be eaten at any given time.

He’s the kind of guy that actually WANTS to help. He wants to make life beautiful and worth living.

And here was Jesus wondering, why do you struggle so much to figure out your life when you have a God in heaven that happily wants to take that burden away from you?

This wasn’t the God I was introduced to until later on in my teenage years into my adult years. Imagine all my wasted years of thinking that I couldn’t bank on God to help my life, of being afraid of Him.

How would you feel if the person you loved the most, the person you would literally do anything for, thought of you as a wicked, horrible person?

I’m sure it’ll break your heart. It’ll make you want to fix that mentality. That’s exactly what God is trying to do with this blog post you’re reading.

The issue isn’t that God wants you to be with a life partner you aren’t attracted to. It’s trusting God to have your best interest at heart when He’s telling you to do something.

Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”

God is the only one that knows exactly what’s best for you because He’s the only one that knows the future. He knows every decision and their possible outcome.

God is the only one that qualifies as the elder in that African proverb that sees what you can’t see even when on top of a Mango tree.

If you know that a person’s only thoughts for you are good, won’t you run to that person and never let go?

Let me say this; God is good.

“Every good gift and every perfect present comes from heaven; it comes down from God, the Creator of the heavenly lights, who does not change or cause darkness by turning.”
‭‭James‬ ‭1:17‬ ‭(GNT‬‬)

God is the only good in this world. If a matter can be sum totaled as ‘good,’ then God had something to do with it.

This is why Jesus said to seek God first, meaning to pray, to talk to Him before anything else.

Proverbs 3:6 explains it by saying, “In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” (KJV)

To experience the good in this life, seek the Good in this life.

Child of God or soon-to-be Child of God, the will of God is for you to get the best out of life. To live a life worth living, worth remembering and talking about. A life that best suits you.

It might not be a rosy garden that God might offer you. It might even be the ugly husband analogy I gave earlier. But you can trust that whatever it is God has planned for you is the best thing that could ever happen to you.

Until next time, xx