God's Will

Did you watch the Super Bowl?  I did with a great group of friends.  I honestly did not care about the game, but it was the friendship that I went for.  I wonder how many out there believe that it was God's will that the Packers won?  I saw so many players raising their fingers toward heaven, as though God had something to do with a big hit, or a solid catch.  I really have to ask if He cared at all?

It's interesting how we take our own biased beliefs and turn them into His.  When the earth shakes and floods, we call it an act of God.  When tragedy happens in someones life, it may be called the will of God.  I question, is it His will that we suffer enduring tragedy and pain, or is it something else?  God's will!  What a big question to tackle, but I believe that it is spelled out in the bible very clearly. 

Let's look at the life of Peter.  Peter grew up to be a fisherman, but was eventually called to a greater purpose.  That eventual purpose was to give his own life for the very God he denied.  Peter used his circumstances of his life and turned them into something that was much greater than he.  He used his life for God's will.  Why was it God's will that he denied Christ?  We don't necessarily know if he would have been tried just as Jesus, was, but we do know that God used this as a point to help Peter grow.  To become fuller in Christ than ever before. 

Jesus says in John 10:10 that He has come so that we may have a fuller life.  If we are talking God's will, then I now realize what God's will is.  It is to have a much deeper relationship with God through Jesus.  I can presuppose to know what His will is for my life, but I can also guess that I will get it wrong 100 percent of the time.  So, how does this play out in my life? 

When something goes wrong, do I say "oh that is God's will, I will just accept it?"  Or do we look at the situation and ask, what would God have me get from this?  Perhaps His will is something that we will never truly know until we stand before Him, but I do know that within the pain and suffering in my own life, can come renewal for others. 

It now becomes a change of perspective.  I stop attempting to know everything, and I begin to accept things the way He would have me to.  Sometimes things happen for no rhyme or reason to us, but He is aware all that is taking place, and He is the only one that can bring us to a point of understanding.  Let His will flow through your life and you will find yourself in new places, both literally and emotionally.