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"But if we hope for that we see not, then do we
with patience wait for it." Romans 8:25
Our utmost desire should be to know and to do God's
will. There are times that we seek and seek to understand and know
God's will but the answer just doesn't come. In these times we must
wait patiently for the will of God, knowing that in the waiting,
God's will is being accomplished.
The following is taken from: How to Know God’s
Will by C. W. Naylor (1925)
Sometimes when we desire to know God’s will, He does
not reveal it at once. We are earnestly seeking to know it in the
way that we understand is best to find it out, and yet His will is
not revealed. Our way is obscured before us—we do not know what to
do next. We cry to God, but there is no answer. Why does He not
reveal Himself? Why does He not speak, so that the soul may hear? If
He is silent, let us be assured that there is a good reason for His
silence. Perhaps the time is not yet ripe for the revelation of His
purpose. The premature revelation of His will would often thwart His
purpose. Sometimes it is necessary for God to leave us in ignorance
of His will, in order that He might work it out, and accomplish His
designed purpose. Many times our unsatisfied longings, our thwarted
purposes, our sufferings of anguish, all work together to accomplish
His purpose….
So in many a life God must hide His will in order to
accomplish His purpose. Though ignorance of His will may cause
anguish of spirit, that anguish is all compensated in the end, when
the soul has risen to higher heights and has sunk down into deeper
depths than would have been possible had the way been made plain and
the will of God made manifest all the time. Sometimes it is said
that the submitted soul always knows God’s will, but many a
Christian can look back to times when he did not know God’s will,
when he was perplexed and troubled because he did not know it. But
he can now see that his ignorance did not hinder God’s working out
of His own purpose. So if we do not always know God’s will fully, we
can still trust Him, and in Gods’ own time we shall know it, for He
will not fail to reveal it when it is necessary for us to know it. |
