Simply Ask or Try to Figure it Out?

If you want to find out what God’s will is, don’t study Him and try to ‘figure it out’ but simply ask Him. He is not a dead specimen that you put under mans microscope and then understand the universe. You are to “study” Gods Word but you are doing it with Him and not without Him. He is alive and available to teach you and reveal His will to you.

When I want to know my wife’s will, I don’t study her and try to figure it out, I simply ask her. I haven’t ‘figured her out’ yet and probably never will but that does not mean that I do not know her. I know her because we live together and have been communicating all these years. But just because she felt a certain way about something five years ago does not mean that it’s the same today. If we went to a Chinese restaurant of Friday and had a good time it does not mean that it’s her will eat Chinese food every Friday. If I really want to know what she wants I need to ask and she will tell me.

People do this with God; they study the Bible and say God did this and God did that and so this is what God will do. And that is a good start but the next step is to go ASK HIM what He thinks about it and what He is going to do. He knows and you don’t and you can’t ‘figure it out’ because you don’t have all the figures. For example you can’t see what’s really going on in people’s hearts and you don’t know the future but God does. If you try to be really smart and come to your own conclusion it’s like doing a big math problem without all the figures and you can’t get the right answer unless you ask God to reveal the missing elements. This method usually gets very complicated and you might get some answers but you will also make mistakes and be wrong some of the time. So instead of all this strain on your brain why not just ask God to tell you the answer? Pray and be willing to hear what He has to say, study His Word WITH Him and He will show you His will.

Some people think they have it all figured out and say that they can tell you God’s will for your life. And this is true in the broad sense God’s Word is the same for everyone. But when it comes to the details why would God tell someone else about the details of your life and not you? If you are willing to hear He will speak to you from the inside out and reveal His will for your life. Humanity needs answers and looking for someone to tell them. People want to hear from the man of God, but it’s better to hear from the God of man. So seek Him and you will find out then there will be no need to try to ‘figure it out.’

Jer 33:3
3 'Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.'
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