Failure and “God’s will”
This is gonna sound familiar, you apply somewhere like a job or a school and you really put your bets on it, hoping that you’ll get it; but you don’t… and people around you say “don’t be upset, it wasn’t God’s will”. It’s not the statement that bothers me, it’s the context it’s being used for. Let me just sidetrack to this so it all makes sense. We have many hobbies in life, one of mine are to play chess. Let’s say I wanted to pursue chess and go into my first few tournaments and do absolutely horrible. What’s everyone gonna tell me? I should practice more. But for whatever reason when it comes to schools and jobs (and these are just 2 examples there’s plenty more) we try to tell those who failed to receive the opportunity that it wasn’t God’s will and that some better opportunity is there. But who says failure is against God’s will?
What’s God’s Will then?
“For this is the will of God, your sanctification” 1 Thessalonians 4:3. That’s it. It’s very simple. Don’t twist it into this predestination context, that’s against the very core concept of free will. The definition doesn’t state that the will of God wants you to be a certain career or be at a certain school, just to be clean of heart… Because if you are clean of heart He can be fully within you.
