Walking in the Will of God

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Encouragement for your daily walk with God

Walking in the Will of God

If you are walking daily with the Lord, you will not have to find God’s will—you will already be in it. If you are walking with Him in obedience day by day, you will always be in the will of God. Walking closely with God each day guarantees that you will be exactly where He wants you to be.

The disciples never had to ask Jesus where they should go next. They simply looked to see where Jesus was going and stayed close to Him! Jesus was their “way.” They didn’t need a map as long as they had Jesus. It often seems easier to follow a plan than to cultivate a relationship. We can become more concerned with our future than we are with walking intimately with God each day.

Jesus will never give you a substitute for Himself. He is the only way to the Father. If you want to know God’s will, take time to cultivate your relationship with Jesus. He has given us the Holy Spirit as a guide. Here is Jesus on the matter: “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come” (John 16:13).

If you are walking in Christ with the Holy Spirit as your Guide, you will have to reject all of the Holy Spirit’s activity in your life in order to get out of the will of God. God is with you, and in you. By yielding yourselves to Him daily, you will continually walk in His will. Perhaps that’s what Paul had in mind when he told the Philippians, “…continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose” (Philippians 2:12b-13). That is one of the joys in knowing God!