It isn’t always easy to know what God’s will is for our lives. We pray and spend time with him, we ask him to guide us and help us with the decisions we have to make in our lives. I haven’t always felt him answer, in fact mostly, it is only after decisions have been made and events unfold that I understand what his will was for the particular decision I had to make.
I think we can take it that if we are going in the wrong direction, we will find that lots of obstacles are placed in our way. Possibly because we haven’t listened to God’s advice and gone ahead with something, his help has been to put difficult things in our way so that we change back to the course he has in mind for us.
An example I can think of is when we decide to move houses or areas. I put my house on the market a while ago and I did pray and ask for God’s direction on this and felt that moving was a good decision to make but maybe I wasn’t listening. It wasn’t smooth at all. I didn’t receive any offers and suddenly, my roof began leaking and I noticed a serious damp issue in my basement. A friend who put her house on the market after mine sold hers, moved into her new property and all in the time mine was still on the market! It must have been a very good move for her. I begin to see now that perhaps it wasn’t such a good idea for me for a variety of reasons and God was telling me that.
I think patience is the main way to discern his will. He answers but in his time and at the right time and if events conspire against something we want to do, it is probable that it won’t be right for us. It is difficult because sometimes we want something so much, or it is an easy answer to our problems, that we don’t listen and go ahead with a decision.
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise? Let them realize these things. Who is discerning? Let them understand. The ways of the LORD are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.
May God bless you and help you to discern his will for your lives,
Widows Mote 