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Wednesday, June 14, 2006

I was looking through my parent’s bookshelf when I came across this old book entitled The Perfect Will Of God by G. Christian Weiss. As I was reading it, this chapter – It is possible to miss God’s will and plan did speak to me. Hope it will speak to you too.

When I was a student in Christian training, one of my teachers startled our ears one morning in class by saying, “I have lived most of my life on God’s second best.” Following that remark, instead of devoting the class period to the lesson for the day, he felt prompted by the Spirit to tell us his story. God had manifestly called him to be a missionary in his younger years. He turned aside from this course, through marriage. He had in fact practically given up Christian work and begun a selfish business life as cashier in a bank, with the primary purpose of setting up a nice home and making money. The Spirit of God kept dealing with him, but there was no yielding. A number of years passed. Then one day there was a telephone call to the bank. Their small child had toppled over in her high chair and was dead. It took that bitter experience to bring that Christian to the place of surrender. After he spent a night alone with God on his knees, in tears and agony, the surrender came. But it was too late now to go to Africa; his disobedience of earlier years had closed that door forever, though he knew God had once called him.
What was to be done in a case like that? Surrendering himself then and there utterly to God, with a broken and contrite heart, this man pleaded with the Lord to take up the tangled threads of his disobedient life and make the wreckage whatever He could. God heard that prayer, and gave him a useful and quite fruitful ministry the rest of his days. He was the means eventually of training and helping to send out other missionaries. But, as he testified with tears to us young men that morning, he had missed God’s first and highest choice for his life and had been living on His second best.
I have since met numerous people who have borne similar testimony. Usually these testimonies have been bathed, or at least marked, with bitter tears. For, while, thank God, He has ways of using even those who have sinned and have gone past that single entrance into the channel of Hid perfect will, life can never be the way He originally intended it. It is a tragedy to miss the perfect will of God for one’s life. Christian, mark well these words and this testimony, lest you too miss His first choice. God doubtless will use any life that is submitted to His hands, anywhere along life’s pathway, but let us be among those who have sought and surrendered to His will at the outset of life’s journey, and thus avoid those painful and shameful detours of the way.

After I read this, I felt scared. Scared because what if God’s will is totally against mine? Like send me out of the mission field or something? And yet as a Christian, our purpose is to also discover God’s will for our lives. And who wants to settle for second best? I mean everyone knows what the politically correct answers to these questions. Like He will guide you through it and you need not be afraid. But there is fear still. Give me sometime to be really convicted.

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