God's Will

God’s Will

6 One day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them. 7 The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?"
Satan answered the LORD, "From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it."

8 Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil."

9 "Does Job fear God for nothing?" Satan replied. 10 "Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. 11 But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face."

12 The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger."
Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

Was it God’s will for Satan to test Job or was it God just allowing Satan to test Job, but not necessarily his will for Job. I have no idea and recently in my life I have been faced with these same questions.

Feb 21^st Riley was born to our family and what was supposed to be one of the happiest moments of my life quickly became a moment of fear and questions. When my daughter was born it was like a line was drawn and she went from a very active baby in the womb to a baby that needed to be revived before my very eyes…..why? In the weeks to come I would have more questions about God and not enough answers.

Is it God’s will for my daughter to be sick and in the hospital? Did he make her to be this way so he could reach people, did he make her to be this way so in the end he could receive the glory. If it is God’s will then how would I pray against sickness, how could I ask God to heal people if the sickness was his will?

Maybe it’s not God’s will, maybe it is just the result of a fallen world and an enemy that has come to steal, kill, and destroy. However, if I allow something to happen isn’t it my will for it to happen, aren’t my actions or lack of actions my will for the situation.

These were pretty much every thought that I have had in the past few weeks since my daughter’s birth. Naturally, I became angry at the fact that I could not figure out God’s will and why this was happening to my family. However, I find peace in this

"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

I had to come to a place that I am not going to be able to rationally figure out this situation and that I am not going to be able to figure out God’s will in this situation….Only He knows.

The main thing that I have learned is that I know nothing about God’s will or his thoughts, but like Matt Adcox wrote as his opening line in his song Believe…..

I don’t understand your ways, but I trust in your heart….and its okay

The peace for me has come in remembering that the thing to do in this situation is not to try and figure out what God’s thinking, but to remember his heart.

This is the way I see things in my simple view……

I look at my relationship with Ayden…..Ayden may not always understand the things I do to and for him, but as his father I will never do anything to hurt him. At times when he is punished he may think that I am trying to hurt him or something like that, but as his dad I am only doing what is best for him….I think that is how God is with us. We may not always understand why things happen the way they do and at times we may think we are being punished or that God has forgotten us, but the fact is he will always only do what is best for us……So whether it is his will or not I don’t care because in the end I know that he is doing what is best for me and my family because he loves us.

Josh, Becca, Ayden, and Riley