Who speaks for God?
http://jbelleblogs.blogspot.com/2010/03/who-speaks-for-god.html
I don't presume to know what Gods will is. How can anyone attempt to predict anyones intentions?If you have a friend whom you know well ,I assume you can make a educated guess as what they might be doing. Often we may be right, occasionally our closest friends may surprise us.
If anyone tells you they know what Gods will is, immediately question them. I have found when something is believed to be Gods will, its likely to be realized after the fact or in hind sight. And it is understood to the individuals personal experience and open for debate and interpretation.
As it is clearly exemplified through out the Bible, Gods preferred tool is us , people. God is very deliberate in his selection of who and how his will , will be implemented. I think that if we claim to know his will, then we are inevitably saying we are like God cause we know what he s going to do. This path gets steeper, at this point we can go as far to say since we know what God is going to do we might as well do it.Then we just start replacing Gods will with ours.
However there are instances in when we may be led by the spirit, where we have the intuition that God wants us to act on something, whether it is his will or not we don't know .When this type of event occurs we are so caught up in the emotion that we are compelled to act. The difference between claiming Gods will and and being led by Gods will is the fact that his will does not need to be proclaimed it simply needs to be done.
If God had chosen you to lead a group, you wouldn't say "God has chosen me to lead you so you have to listen!" NO! you would simply lead the group into Gods will. You probably saying well how do you come about acknowledging you have been chosen or called to his will? I don't have a good answer other than you know that you know that you know. Also if you have a relationship with God,make him your central point of focus , and meditate on his word your more apt to have an awareness to Gods presence.
while writing this I thought of an instance when God chose someone to do his will and in the same exchange confirmed the orders and expounded on the importance of attention to details. God spoke to Gideon and firmly revealed his will and authority.Whats great in this conversation is that Gideon challenges Gods will and at the same time becomes it. Judges 6:11-16
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Judges 6
Gideon
1 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites.2 Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds.3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country.4 They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys.5 They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count the men and their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it.
6 Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the LORD for help.
7 When the Israelites cried to the LORD because of Midian,8 he sent them a prophet, who said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.9 I snatched you from the power of Egypt and from the hand of all your oppressors. I drove them from before you and gave you their land.
10 I said to you, ‘I am the LORD your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.’ But you have not listened to me.”
11 The angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites.
12 When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, “The LORD is with you, mighty warrior.”
13 “But sir,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our fathers told us about when they said, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and put us into the hand of Midian.”
14 The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand. Am I not sending you?”
15 “But Lord,” Gideon asked, “how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.”
16 The LORD answered, “I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites together.”
I often feel as though God says to me "Am I not sending you?" Gideon says in essence to God look at all thats happened where is God what is he going to do , And then God says to Gideon What are YOU going to do? Even after God has instructed Gideon, he questions "but how?" God simply says" because I will be with you!". I think this is a great illustration of How God operates, how he chooses people, why he does it.
So we can know the law, we know Gods commandments, we know what God doesn't want us to do.We know what God does want us to do . It is reasonable to say we know God s will and his main purpose for us as a whole. I do not believe we can assume Gods role of fathering and mentoring to an individuals needs. In other words we all have the same mission and we know that mission, but we each have a different journey to go on to complete that mission.
Allow God to guide you.
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