In life, we are faced with loads of choices to make. And one thing that pains me is that I don't have the same faith of certainty like Jesus did. I make my plans and hope they are the will of God. Jesus knew the will of God and made plans.
But on a broader study, we find that it wasn't only Jesus that had that.
Abraham showed such qualities when he rejected a financial reward from a consortium of Kings because he knew for sure that he was going to be so rich (Genesis 14:21-23). He showed it when he told his servants to wait for them while he was going to offer Isaac (Genesis 22:5).
Samuel showed it through out his ministry. He dared God to send rain in dry season just to proved that he had been on the right path (1 Samuel 12:16-18).
Moses showed it when he worked so hard even when he knew there was no possibility about his entry to canaan. Deutoronomy 3:23-28
Elisha always had insight to God's working so that he complained that God hid a particular case from him. 2 Kings 4:27
Jesus said if it were not so I would have told you. John 14:2. Never was a man so full of God's mind for him as Yeshuah. He knew what God wanted him to do or say. No wonder the soldiers who were sent to arrest him before his time said "No one has ever spoken like that man" John 7:46
Daniel had surety of faith to have believe the message he received from God as the true answer to another man's King.
Paul who at a time was a condemned prisoner still had the certainly of faith to decide whether he wanted to die or live (Philipians 1:20-24). Some years later, he makes up his mind and draws the curtain (2 Timothy 4:6).
the list could go on...
The issue today is that I see myself and other christians waiting to do something right and declare that it was the will of God. Or when the plan crashes, we thank God that it wasn't his will after all. So there exist a gulf between us and the true knowledge of God's will. We are experts in figuring God's will out by probability permutation.
Jesus says in John 8:12: I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life. Or in 11:35 -36 Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going. In so far as you have the light, put your faith in the light so that you may become sons of light. With these words Jesus went away and for a time was not seen again by them
Believers in Christ, we are really missing out on something without which we will not enjoy the true expression of the eternal life we have. We have the surety of God's word. We have the God's guaranty of the promise - Holy Spirit. But why are we not living out the certainty of God's will? Why are we living or making life choices with guesses as though the God for us is perhaps this or perhaps that.
This is my greatest need from God because clearly it is written in God's word. We need to stop living on probability like the children of this world because our Father has the pleasure of giving us this sure kingdom.
Paul testified in 2 Corinthians 1:18-22:
But God is faithful, so that our word to you is not "yes" and "no."For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the one who was proclaimed among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, did not become "yes" and "no," but has become "yes" in him.For as many as are the promises of God, in him they are "yes"; therefore also through him is the "amen" to the glory of God through us.Now the one who establishes us together with you in Christ and who anoints us is God, who also sealed us and gave the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
I am more determine to see this change and encourage you so that we seek our God together that we may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding (Colossians 1:9-12).
Prayer point: That God will take away the guesses of life that has made us live like those of the World and point in us the power and knowledge of his will for us in spiritual wisdom and understanding.
That we may accept from God, the revelation of life for us daily whether it is unto death or life and that the joy of his revelation will keep us instead of the hope to "make it".
