God's Will

I love how the thing I've been struggling with the most over the past two weeks is what I will be teaching on in the AM.  I've been studying on how to teach students to understand God's will for their lives and tomorrows lesson hits me right in the grill.  I feel a little overwhelmed that I'm teaching something that I'm currently dealing with.  I'm hoping this is a common feeling among teachers who are currently deal with issues that that are about teach on.  There are three points.  I won't go into detail on all three because I'm just using this blog as another opportunity to get things out of my head and on to a page.  First, we don't ask God what His will is.  Seemingly almost too simple, we just don't pray enough, or at least I don't.  I desire to know God's will and I feel as though I am passionately concerned about what He wants to do with my life, but I don't know if I'm passionately, consistently, seeking His will through prayer.  James 1:5 puts it pretty simple, we just need to ask for wisdom.  My problem is I often seek wisdom from others first.  It seems to be the easy way out, maybe the lazy way out.  I found out this past week that I'm kind of lazy... little concerned about that one.  Seeking wisdom from others isn't bad, but we should seek God's wisdom first.  Second, we rely too much on logic.  We try to figure things out on our own or we try to figure God out.  I'm really glad I can't figure out God.  The material that I'm teaching from (which is where the three points came from, not me) brings up the example of how the disciples must have had a battle with logic often with Jesus.  Especially in instances like the feedings of the 5,000.  I can hear them now, "Ummm, yeah, feed them, with what? Ok Jesus, let me just wave my magic staff over this here land and maybe a hot dog stand will pop up and come rolling through."  Not saying that couldn't happen either, but logically it didn't make sense that five loaves and two fish could feed 5,000.  That's where Isaiah 55:9 comes in.  Go read it.  Lastly, or third, or 'C' if you prefer letters, is that we hear what we want to hear.  That's a swift kick right there.  I read too much into things. This was brought to my attention this past week but I denied it... but it's true.  We often read too much into things, blame God, and say that's what God is showing us to do.  However, in reality, it's something that we read too much into and wasn't even there. We want to hear what makes us feel good so we twist and turn things to make them fit our moronic lives. The crazy thing is that we believe it.  2 Timothy 4:3 warned against this.

We often hear that if we seek Him we will find Him, I don't understand why we never finish that verse.  Scripture says," You will seek Me and find Me when you search for me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:13 NASB.  We live out a huge part, we find Him when we search for Him with our whole heart.  Our heart has to be fully devoted and fully searching before we can find Him.  That's where I want to be, seeking God with all my heart.  I'm excited about teaching this tomorrow because I'm burdened about it, and good friend told me that's called a "preacher's burden."  I want more of those.

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Laziness kicking in=not taking the time to use spell check or look for any other issues.