Many people are seeking to find their purpose in life. What is God’s purpose for them? Frequently, the desires of our hearts are also the will of God. How can you find out what God’s will is for your life? The answer to these questions is of supreme importance, not only for believers, but for God as well. God wants you to know His will for your life. A good place to start is in prayer, reading the Bible, and in seeking counsel from Christian friends.
Biblical Purpose for your life
The Bible is clear about what God desires from Christians. God wants us to glorify His Son’s name, Jesus Christ. He desires that we tell others about the good news of the Gospel. Apart from these two obvious wills of God for us, what other Scriptures tell us what God wants us to focus on?
Romans 12:1-2 says, “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” When Paul says “I urge you” the Greek indicative is to beg or plead with the brothers and sisters. The word “urge” is more like a desperate plea for your own sakes and in fact the word urge is from the root word for “urgent.” This means it is of critical importance. Also, notice in verse two that it says, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” This renewing is the same Greek word that typifies the Transfiguration of Jesus on the mount of Transfiguration (Matt. 17:1-6). This is where the Shekina Glory was revealed to Peter, James, and John.
So we know that God desires for us to not be conformed to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind by the Holy Spirit. In Romans 1:2 it says, “Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” It says that only then, that is after the renewing of the mind and not being patterned after this world, that we can know “his good, pleasing, and perfect will.” That’s it! This is His perfect will! God’s will for our lives is that we not be conformed to the world but allow the Holy Spirit to transform our minds and then we can “what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” How clearer can it be? That is God’s will for our lives. It is not for us to be rich, to never be sick, and to not suffer, but to conform to His will and His will is a “perfect will!” Wouldn’t you expect to know where to find God’s will? Naturally you can find it in the Bible, because God’s Word to us is the Bible.
So God’s will for our lives is to be transformed by the Holy Spirit, to not be conformed to the world, and maybe even to suffer. Wait! To suffer? First Peter 3:17 says, “For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.” Jesus had to suffer more than anyone else in human history and just before Calvary Jesus “fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will” (Matt. 26:39). There it is. Jesus wanted to seek and do God the Father’s will over His own. And what was God’s will for Jesus? The prophet Isaiah tells us what God’s will was for Jesus just before the brutal Calvary: “Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand” (Is. 53:10). Yes, this was God the Father’s will for Jesus. His will for Jesus was to “crush him and cause him to suffer” and to make “his life a guilt offering” for those who would believe in Him. It should not surprise us then that sometimes God’s will is for us to suffer and this suffering is for God’s glory! I realize that for some who are reading this article about how to find God’s will for your life would not ever think about it being to suffer, but this is from the Bible and the Bible is God speaking to us from His Word (2 Pet. 1:20-21, 2 Tim. 3:16).
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