The Word of the Lord

December 7th

Seeing God’s Will

“Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;”
Ephesians 5:20 (KJV)

Daily Devotional

December 7th

One of the most thrilling things about studying the Bible is to know that the infinite God has been pleased to share some of the secrets of His universe with His redeemed children.
Sin has blinded men, so the unsaved man sees life in a false perspective. But the born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred, confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful. His eyes have been opened to spiritual truth.
In Christ’s first sermon at Nazareth He said that one of the reasons He had come to earth was to preach “recovering of sight to the blind” (Luke 4:18). The Gospel of Christ helps us to see our need and helplessness, and then shows us the redeeming grace which God has placed within reach of every man.
In the Bible we are called “the children of light, and the children of the day” (1 Thessalonians 5:5), because it pleased God to share His mysteries and secrets with us. We are no longer in the dark—we know where we came from, we know why we are here, and we know where we are going.
In Ephesians 1:9-10 we learn of one of God’s mysteries which has been revealed: “Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: that in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth.”
It is God’s will that sometime in the future, perhaps very soon, we shall all be together with Him.
And what is God’s will for us today? Down through the ages it has been the heart’s desire of devout men to know and to follow the will of God each day. David said, “Teach me to do thy will” (Psalm 143:10).
Teach and do. He has taught. Are you doing?

 

Billy Graham

Unto the hills ; Publisher Thomas Nelson

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