How do I know what God Wants?
A friend forwarded me a comment she'd seen on a message board: "How can I find out what God WANTS of me, when the only answer I seem to get from Him - ever - is NO? I try by Trial and Error, but I have no idea where to go if everything I TRY is a "whoops, not there"."
I wonder the same thing. It's all well and good to say "well, obviously your desires aren't coinciding with His plans for you." But really, now, if EVERY SINGLE THING I try, in every direction, is met with a "not that..." then it's not so much my DESIRES not coinciding as it is "I have no clue whatsoever."
If the only thing I hear is "NO" then how do I even tell what "YES" is? How do I know what God WANTS from me, what He wants me to do, if all I ever find out is what He DOESN'T want? When you've run out of ideas, when you've run out of even having questions, and the Still Small Voice isn't talking...then what?
Pray harder? Listen harder? How? And now I'm back to "how do I know that what I think I'm "hearing" is really God, and not my own desires?" But I think we all know how that works out, don't we.
I'm tired of NO. I wish -- just once -- I'd get a YES on something. Or at least a "hey, stupid, THATAWAY".
Even a general direction for my life, what he wants from me, and how He wants me to start going about it. That's all I want.
I'm sick of this whirling around in circles, trying to follow directions that I'm not getting, or that just boil down to "not that way either."
I wonder the same thing. It's all well and good to say "well, obviously your desires aren't coinciding with His plans for you." But really, now, if EVERY SINGLE THING I try, in every direction, is met with a "not that..." then it's not so much my DESIRES not coinciding as it is "I have no clue whatsoever."
If the only thing I hear is "NO" then how do I even tell what "YES" is? How do I know what God WANTS from me, what He wants me to do, if all I ever find out is what He DOESN'T want? When you've run out of ideas, when you've run out of even having questions, and the Still Small Voice isn't talking...then what?
Pray harder? Listen harder? How? And now I'm back to "how do I know that what I think I'm "hearing" is really God, and not my own desires?" But I think we all know how that works out, don't we.
I'm tired of NO. I wish -- just once -- I'd get a YES on something. Or at least a "hey, stupid, THATAWAY".
Even a general direction for my life, what he wants from me, and how He wants me to start going about it. That's all I want.
I'm sick of this whirling around in circles, trying to follow directions that I'm not getting, or that just boil down to "not that way either."
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