Where there is no revelation, the
people cast off restraint; But happy is he who keeps the law. Proverbs
29:18
The world
operates on vision. God’s people live by revelation. The world seeks
grand and noble purposes and goals to achieve. People dream up the greatest and
most satisfying things in which they can invest their lives. Institutions
establish goals and objectives and then organize themselves to achieve them.
God’s people function in a radically different way. Christians arrange their
lives based on the revelation of God, regardless of whether it makes sense to
them. God does not ask for our opinion about what is best for our future, our
family, our church, or our country. He already knows! What God wants is to get
the attention of His people and reveal to us what is on His heart and what
is His will, for God’s ways are not our ways! (Isa. 55:8-9).
Whenever
people do not base their lives on God’s revelation, they “cast off restraint.”
That is, they do what is right in their own eyes. They set their goals, arrange
their agendas, and then pray for God’s blessings. Some Christians are living
far outside the will of God, yet they have the audacity to pray and ask God to
bless their efforts!
The only
way for you to know God’s will is for Him to reveal it to you. You will never
discover it on your own. When you hear from the Father, you have an immediate
agenda for your life: obedience. As the writer of Proverbs observed:
“Happy is he who keeps the law.”
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