Understanding His Will

Daily Devotional 

Thursday January 23, 2025

Understanding His Will

Eph.5.17 - Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Beyond what you think you need, there's what God knows is more needed for us all. Waiting on God involves learning to communicate with Him in prayers and listening to Him through thorough study of His word. He wants us to understand the nitty gritty of what He's about to deliver to us and whether there's something more in His mind for us. Waiting experience requires that you surrender yourself to Him completely, submit to His instructions, serve with total humility to His will, be lost in Him and allow him to take all the glory when the answers eventually come. The waiting room is a place of crucifixion. Crucifying the flesh and being renewed in the inner man.

It is not the blessings we receive from Him that matters but the ability to understand that He wants to build a permanent abode with us. His primary aim for creating, calling and paying the prize for our salvation and all our needs is that we might remain with Him and do as He commands. He doesn't want us to come once and never again. He wants us to keep coming and depend on Him absolutely without hurting our ego or disrupting our independence and freedom of choice. 

So, it is not all about what we need or pray for but what He wants us to understand and do for Him. The purpose He made us. Jer. 29:11-14. Make the best of your waiting experience to find God, His salvation, understanding, knowledge, wisdom and build a lasting relationship with Him. Give His Spirit a permanent place in your heart, He is the secret to discerning what His will is. And also to understand that He wants you to dedicate yourself and your gifts to His praise and glory.

Further Readings: 1 Kings 3:3-15; Prov. 4:1-9; John 15:1-11 

Prayers:

Oh gracious Lord, help me to understand all You want me to know and have so as to maximize my time in Your presence and your blessings when they eventually come. I pray in Jesus Christ’s name. Amen