God's Will

Have you ever wondered if you have missed God’s will for your life? Did you ever set out to do something for God, and things just didn’t turn out the way you thought they would? Then you started doubting? Well, maybe Romans 12:2 can help us to better understand God’s will for our lives. Listen to what Paul says, “…that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

God’s will is broken into three parts: His good will, His acceptable will, and His perfect will. Maybe what we are having a problem with is His perfect will. God already understands that not everything in our lives is going to line up with His perfect will. When we make major mistakes maybe we disqualify ourselves from His perfect will. But we can still be in His will; we are then in His acceptable will or His good will.

God has a good will towards us no matter where we are or what we are doing. Remember the prodigal son? He left his father and went out to spend his inheritance foolishly. He was out of his father’s perfect will and his father’s acceptable will. But he was still in his father’s good will. In other words, his father still loved him and was good to him.

When the prodigal son returned home in repentance, he was accepted by his father, indicating that he was now in the acceptable will of his father. Sometimes we may not be in God’s perfect will, but we are in His acceptable will. That is, we are not perfectly where He wants us to be, but He accepts where we are and extends His grace none the less.

Then there is His perfect will, the place all of us would love to be all of the time. And, in deed, there are areas of our lives that we are in His perfect will. But, because we are not perfect people and we make mistakes, we can’t be in His perfect will all of the time in every area of our lives. We are going to miss the mark. That’s ok. God already knows and has made provision in His will and in his grace. That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t desire or strive to do His perfect will or to be in His perfect will. But, thank God, if we miss His perfect will, it doesn’t mean we are not in His will at all.

Let’s examine where we are when it comes to His good, acceptable, and perfect will for our lives. Am I in His will? Yes, at all times!