God's Will

"The will of God concerns the present more than the future; it deals with our motives as well as our actions; it focuses on the little decisions we make every day even more than the big decisions we make about the future. The only time we really have both to know and to do God's will is the PRESENT MOMENT. We are to love God with heart, soul, mind and strength, and we are to love our neighbours as we love ourselves. These are the basic responsibilities Jesus challenges us to pay attention to.

It is the daily choices we make to honor and serve God that determine whether we are doing the will of God. We already know the will of God for our daily lives, however cloudy the future appears to be. That we do not know what God wants for tomorrow does not excuse us from doing HIS will today.

The will of God has to do with what we already know, not what we must figure out. It is contained in Jesus' command that we seek first HIS kingdom and HIS righteousness. The will of God, then, consists of one clear mandate - that we make God the absolute center of our lives. Ironically, it is exactly in making this choice that we find true freedom. It is the freedom of obedience. That is the will of God for all of us."

excerpts from The Will of God as a Way of Life by Jerry Sittser pg 34, 59