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I am a pastor and a clinical psychotherapist. My life's passion is defining healthiness from a human perspective and paralleling it to the holiness of God, divine perspective. Shifting perspectives creates a paradigm that is alongside of rather than over and against. The parakalein of God and the paradoxes of humanity are redefined. Humanity is all about winning and yet we are losing ground everywhere. Divinity is all about letting go of the desire to win and the fear of loss. The Divine embraces the world with loving care regardless of anything.

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God's Will what is it How do I know it

Posted by Don Paine

Many think of God's will as related to who they marry, what kind of work they do, what college they should go to etc.  What if those are natural choices we make as life unfolds and they are simply that, "Choices".  God's will then could be relegated not exclusively but primarily to developing characteristics, like the fruit of the Spirit, like being thankful, about knowing God's presence even when God feels absent.  Then God's will would not be a static thing, or a particular thing with particulars attached to it but would be a dynamic concept of abundantly living life in peace, justice, mercy, kindness, goodness, faith, love, joy, patience, gentleness, and self control (cf Galatians 5:22-23

Gods will is not a static or stationary thing as he wants to have life and have it most abundantly.   That does mean God will give us a lot of money. Good experiences. 

God does not will one person to get cancer and another to be a missionary but he gives all life and as they experience life as it comes to him it unfolds like a sting bud into a summer frenzy of light.
God s will is more who do with who we are or what vocation or avocation we choose. Or what path we walk on how we walk and how often we pause to reflect


Be thankful in all things for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you (Ephesians 5:20)
In everything give thanks for this is the WILL of God in Christ Jesus concerning you (I Thessalonians 5:18)
It is gods will that no one perish but that all come to the glorious light of the matchless grace that opens doors and lights pathways  (II Peter 3:9)
Jesus came not just to do God's will in the "particularly doing sense" But to do god's will in "the being sense" in fellowship with the God, whose will he came to do.

Be filled with the Spirit and you will know what the particular thing you are to do is as it will flow from your relationship with God and with others as a true apprenticeship is.


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