Understanding and submitting to the Perfect will of God
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Galatians 5:24
What do we understand about crucifying our own passions and desires. Many times we have a big question in our lives what is the will or purpose of God in my life or am I leading my life as per God’s will.
The bible says in 1 John 5:14
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
In our prayers we have to identify whether I am praying as per the will of God or as per my will own will or desire to be fulfilled.
Some of us may think or quote the below verse and say I have not asked anything wrong or sinful to God.
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. James 4:3
Our prayer maybe about good things and not evil things but all good things may not be the will of God in our lives. Without this understanding some times we move astray from God’s will and work on our own desire and sometimes feel frustrated and sad when these things don’t happen the way we expected.
A bible teacher once quoted on how to find the will of God. When we have a good relationship with your husband or wife and spend more time with our partner we tend to know their will in the same way when we spend more time with Jesus and have a good relationship with Him we can understand the will of Jesus in our lives.
In my life when I was searching for a bride for my marriage I had a lot of confusions in mind since my marriage was getting delayed. I had the faith that God will lead me to the right person but had a tough time to find out who would that be.
A relative of mine guided me to submit myself completely to God’s will and let go of all my desires. I used to watch a lot of movies before my salvation and I had a lot of things in mind which was inside of me secretly desiring to want those. In the outer I had no much interest on that but inside my heart it was still there expecting me for those things to happen. I have attended a lot of weddings before and heard a lot of things about marriages which was there in my mind which lead me to a fix a criteria and to pray for that expect rather ask God what he wants.
When I understood this I submitted to the perfect will of God and crucified all my own desires. I wanted my wedding to be in a big church and to be in western style and I wanted all to boast how good all the arrangements were made. I wanted my wife to be of noble character but at the same time good looking. But when I submitted to the perfect will of God I let go of all these desires, crucified it in The Cross and asked The Lord please guide me the way you want my wedding to happen and I am letting all of my desires for you to take away from my heart. But to my surprise God gave me everything I previously desired for but the change is this time I didn’t want it happen yet God gave me. God always gives us the best in our lives but we should be careful that we may not always claim the blessings only to happen in our lives but to submit all our desires to God.
Whether you are buying a car, a house or even doing ministry or even daily things in your life always submit to God letting go of your own desires. God will guide you in the right way cause He is our Father and he knows what is best for our life. So how do we know we have let go of all our desires and submitted our selves to God’s will. When we dont have perfect inner peace we have not submitted to God’s will completely. When we die for our self and crucify all our desires we will have that perfect peace in us God will lead us according to His will. When we see a graveyard there will be a common word written on it. RIP (Rest in Peace). The same way if we die for our self we will have the same peace in and no unrest in our hearts.
When we take out all our own desires one by one and crucify it in The Cross there will be inner peace. And God will place His will in our hearts one by one when we take out ours one by one.
For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. Philippians 2:13
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