If hesitancy to do God's will is as widespread as we observe it to be, then faith communities face a major problem.  If individuals and communities block opportunities to seek God's will, they cut themselves off from God and are left to manage with only their own ingenuity, which is all too fallible.


When people seek God's will, their quest leads them to yearn for the will of God, even as God, in love, yearns for them.  Yearning may be a softer word than will and may have more meaning for us.  God's will and God's yearning are synonymous.  God's will is the best thing that can happen to us under any circumstance.  Responding to God's yearning produces harmony, not hardship, and power, not problems.


The God questions may well be the most important questions we ask:  God, is this your will; yes or no?  What are you guiding us to be or do?


God meets us at the pivotal points in our lives and in the life of the faith community.  Asking the question then has the potential to completely reorient our lives and ministries.  

Consider:  How different would your life be if you had frequently and earnestly asked the question, "God, what is your will?

What would your church be like if at every important juncture, you and other members of your faith community had consciously asked, "God, what is your will?"

  From Discovering God's Will Together by Danny E. Morris and Charles H. Olsen